Hot Topics in Internet Circles

• Domain Name System - bulging and straining
• ISDN Rates - too high or too low ?
• Is an ISP a long-distance telephone company ?
• COM-PRIV - a very active mailing list, gatewayed into a local newsgroup at RNS, where people debate the issues of privatizing the Internet.
• NetHappenings is also available as a newsgroup

Domain Name System - bulging and straining

• Will DNS collapse ? And who should collect the DNS registration fees ? A thought-provoking article by Robert Shaw, from the ITU administration.
• Report from the Internet Ad Hoc Committee

ISDN Rates - too high or too low ?

• Pacific Bell is proposing a rate increase for ISDN.
  The customers are unhappy

Is an ISP a long-distance telephone company ?

• The FCC wants to collect subscriber line charges for Internet Phone and similar programs such as MicroSoft NetMeeting
• The Internet Access Coalition commissioned a report which shows that ISPs do NOT overload the network and cause the telco's to lose money