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Dear Sir or Madam,

Why does the planned international copyright
convention ACTA cause a stir in the Internet community? Do we really have
to fear that net communication will be increasingly controlled? Is there
a risk of overregulation? And which types of access control are technically
feasible already today? How does retained data affect everyday life? Which
information is recorded and what can you read from it? What would be the
consequences for our society?

The second day of the specialist conference
Domain pulse, which was held in Hamburg in 2012, provided interesting statements,
forecasts and answers to these and other highly topical issues. More than
350 congress visitors listened to the lectures and international-expert
panel discussions that have made the largest annual congress dealing with
current topics and trends in the field of Internet and domains in the German-speaking
territory an established meeting of the industry. In cooperation with the
registries administering the country code Top Level domains of Austria
(nic.at) and of Switzerland and Liechtenstein (SWITCH), DENIC, the registry
of the German country code TLD .de and this year’s host, held the ninth
two-day expert congress Domain pulse.

Hot potatoes: Internet governance,
access control and copyright in the web
The second day of the conference, 14
February 2012, centered around Internet governance and network politics.
In a high-caliber panel discussion representatives from the Board of Directors
of the top-level Internet administration body ICANN, experts from the Enquete
Commission "Internet and Digital Society" of the German Bundestag
and network activists from the political field controversially discussed
the positions held by different stakeholders and critically investigated
intended measures. They all agreed that taking political decisions that
will affect the public down to everyday life all over the world, without
consulting civil society as it is currently happening with ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting
Trade Agreement), were questionable and no longer up to date. Instead of
reinforcing traditional copyright ideas that are no longer in line with
today’s reality of life, the digital age requires a redefinition of the
regulatory framework. 

Revealing data traces
Which results things like retained data,
being just one aspect of network policy, may yield and thus catapult the
vision of George Orwell's Big Brother into the present time, illustrated
Malte Spitz, member of the Executive Board of the German political party
Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN, and the visualization expert Michael Kreil: The
analyzation of collected data enters a completely new dimension, if - linked
in a visual presentation - they make visible individual movement profiles
and thus let the glass human being become reality.

News from the industry
Besides these social policy aspects
of the Internet, the agenda of the second day further included topics closer
related to the industry itself, such as forecasts and trends for the domain
market in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, compiled in
the Registrar Atlas 2012 on the basis of a study executed by the eco Names
& Numbers Forum of the Association of the German Internet Industry,
and the benefits of agile methods, like Kanban and Scrum, applied in software
development and IP operation.

Providers under fire: about obligations
and liability claims
Joerg Heidrich, specialist lawyer for
IT law and legal counsel from the Heise publishing house concluded the
multi-faceted congress with legal considerations: In his presentation about
legal risks in the domain environment he illustrated the present legal
situation in Germany and some other countries at the practical example
of current rulings related to liabilities of registries and providers.

The topics of day one
The first conference day (13 February
2012) focused on the change of the conception of man and the world of work
due to the "Internet as the operating system of society", technical
approaches and potential development scenarios of the World Wide Web in
the next years, measures that can be taken to combat the increasing monopolization
of online knowledge, prospects and the current situation with regard to
the new address endings in the Internet (Top Level Domains), use patterns
of Internet domains and how to get out of the online addiction trap. You
will find the press release with a brief summary of the most important
agenda items at http://www.denic.de/en/denic-in-dialogue/news/3421.html.

Domain pulse on the Internet
You will find the complete program of
the specialist congress and all information about the protagonists involved
on DENIC's event website www.domainpulse.de.
About one week after the event, we will also make available live recordings
as a retrospective of the event.

The next Domain pulse will be held on
18 and 19 February 2013 in Davos, Switzerland.


If you have any questions, please contact:
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Stefanie Welters
Public Relations
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GERMANY

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