Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Freiburg (Breisgau), 2005.

Principal acteur de la communication au public en ligne, le fournisseur d'accès à Internet offre une connexion, contrôle les points d'accès, identifie les utilisateurs. Ses responsabilités extra-contractuelles résultent de ses multiples fonctions : prestataire technique, responsable de traitement des données, exécutant d'injonctions judiciaires. Ses responsabilités sont abondantes et parfois surabondantes. Toutefois, malgré un régime de responsabilité qui lui est spécifiquement applicable, la notion de "fournisseur d'accès à Internet" n'est toujours pas juridiquement définie. Cette imprécision de la notion entraîne une profusion de régimes juridiques imposant le statut de fournisseur d'accès à des acteurs dont l'activité principale n'est pas la fourniture d'une connexion à Internet : Universités, entreprises, particuliers. Dès lors, les responsabilités extra-contractuelles pénales, civiles et administratives se multiplient et créent un régime obligationnel instable, obscur, voire abscons. Cet éclatement lexical et juridique est encore aggravé par l'application fonctionnelle à l'activité de fourniture d'accès, du droit des communications électroniques et de la société de l'information. Il est alors nécessaire de proposer une définition formelle du fournisseur d'accès à Internet susceptible d'unifier son régime de responsabilité autour de notions juridiques stabilisées. Cette reconstruction affectera inévitablement la réglementation relative à la communication au public en ligne et à ses acteurs, mais proposera une possible fondation au droit des communications électroniques / Internet Service Providers are major actors of the Information Society. They offer connections, controls access points, and can also identify their users. Their many liabilities result from their multiple functions as technical services provider, data controller or performers of judicial orders. These legal obligations are numerous and sometimes overabundant. In spite of an existing and specific liability status, the very notion of "Internet service provider" still remains legally undefined. This lacuna entails a profusion of legal status imposing an ISP status to players for which the main activity is not to provide an Internet connection : Universities, companies, individuals. From then on, criminal, civil and administrative liabilities multiply and create an instable, obscure and even abstruse status. This lexical and legal scattering is even worsened by the functional application of the electronic communications and Information Society legal framework to access providing activities. It is then necessary to unify the legal regimes associated to those activities according to stabilized legal concepts. This reconstruction will inevitably affect the Information Society legal framework as a whole. Eventually, it will open on a possible ground for the electronic communications legal framework

[pt] O desenvolvimento de arquiteturas de Qualidade de Serviço (QoS) para a Internet é um problema que tem recebido bastante atenção ultimamente. Diversos motivos têm impedido a implementação destas arquiteturas em larga escala como, por exemplo, a dificuldade de estabelecimento de contratos e políticas de QoS entre usuários, provedores e operadoras e a ausência de mecanismos na rede para solicitar serviços com garantia de qualidade. Apesar de não terem acesso a um serviço que garanta certos níveis de desempenho para cada tipo de aplicação, os usuários de Internet têm se mostrado cada vez mais exigentes na qualidade do acesso à rede. Isto se confirma com a migração crescente de muitos destes usuários para o acesso à Internet em banda larga. Os provedores de acesso à Internet, principalmente os de banda larga, devem adotar políticas de gerenciamento de seus recursos para atender às expectativas de qualidade dos usuários e se manter competitivos no mercado. Neste trabalho, foram identificados problemas nos processos adotados em um provedor de acesso em banda larga sem fio, a MLS Wireless. No sistema antigo, ocorriam situações que causavam a indisponibilidade de serviços por causa da limitação de conexões simultâneas na rede ou ainda uma degradação na banda e aumento na latência do acesso devido a falta de justiça no compartilhamento de recursos. O trabalho sugere soluções para as deficiências encontradas, implementando-as e analisando a eficácia das mesmas. Para resolver o problema de indisponibilidade, sugere-se o estabelecimento de limites por usuário, para que a capacidade total do sistema não seja esgotada. Para resolver o problema de injustiça e dar maior eqüidade na distribuição de recursos entre os usuários, é implementado um novo mecanismo de compartilhamento baseado em uma disciplina de fila SFQ (Stochastic Fairness Queueing). Os resultados mostraram que as modificações propostas foram efetivas. O tempo de acesso à serviços de WWW e e-mail durante períodos de congestionamento foi drasticamente reduzido, em alguns casos, de cerca de 1 minuto para menos de 10 segundos. / [en] The development of Quality of Service (QoS) architectures for the Internet is a problem that has received significative attention recently. The large scale deployment of such architectures has being blocked by several reasons, such as, the dificulty in establishing Service Level Agreements (SLA) of QoS policies between users, Internet Service Providers (ISP) and operators, and the lack of mechanisms on the network to request services with quality guarantees. Despite of not having access to a service that can guarantee certain levels of performance per aplication, the Internet users are getting more and more concerned about the network quality. That can be confirmed by the number of users that are migrating to the broadband Internet access. The ISP´s, specially the broadband ones, must take measurements to manage their resources to satisfy the users´ expectations of quality and stay competitive on the market. In this work, problems have being identified at the processes used by a broadband ISP, the MLS Wireless. With the old system, certain situations could cause the denial of service due the number of simultaneos connections or degradation and increased latency due the lack of fairness to share the network resources. This work suggests some solutions for these deficiencies, implementing and analyzing their effectiveness. To fix the denial of service, we suggest the limitation of resources per user, so that the total capacity won´t be depleted. To have the resources more fairly distributed among the users, a new mechanism of sharing is implemented, based on a discipline named SFQ (Stochastic Fairness Queueing). The results show that those modifications have being effective. The time to access services like WWW and e-mail during congestion periods was drasticaly reduced, in some cases, from about 1 minute to less than 10 seconds.

Doctor Legum - LLD / Along with its inumerable wonders, the advent of the internet has brought with it very bad vices. The notion of convenience, which comes with the use of the internet, can be attributed to criminals who wish to disguise the proceeds of their ill-derived funds, or what is better known as cyberlaundering. Cyberlaundering is a phenomenon that seems negligible on face value, but, to the contrary, has very dire effects, especially on national economies, which are in no way trifling.This study describes the problem of cyberlaundering, pointing out the various legal issues pertaining to it. Given that cyberlaundering is a comparatively new crime, which is not yet conceptualized legally, criminal justice authorities find it hard to detect, investigate and prosecute cyberlaundering. An adequate legal regime against cyberlaundering is currently non-existent, as there is presently no concise international or national legal framework in place to contain the problem. Whilst the chief focus of the thesis is to devise a legal framework to combat cyberlaundering, considerable attention is also devoted to the tension that arises between public and private interests, amongst several other legal issues that come to play along the way. This is a debate that necessarily arises when legislatures resort to more radical anti-cyberlaundering laws. The study advocates a middle ground, which leads to the desired end of curbing the exponential growth of cyberlaundering, at the very least.

The thesis addresses the research question: How to describe, understand, and explain IT service delivery? Based on the research question, the following research questions were derived:  How to analyse IT service delivery based on ITIL in order to determine its current situation? How to formalize elements of IT service delivery in maturity level that can be used to assess its current status? These research questions are answered by two IT artefacts: an analysis method and a maturity model for IT service delivery. Both of them are constructed by design-science research guidelines. The analysis method is focused on understanding the IT service delivery in organizations; it is founded on the IT service delivery processes of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) version 2. The method proposed has been applied through three case studies of Nicaraguan Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The maturity model is oriented to formalize and assess the maturity level of IT service delivery; it is supported by IT service delivery elements that are considered significant for managing IT service delivery by the Nicaraguan ISP sector, by IT service concepts, and by maturity model properties, and complemented by the IT Service Capability Maturity Model. The maturity model provides a mechanism for evaluating the maturity level of IT service delivery through a set of maturity statements and includes a graphical representation; it is also applied to the traceable information of the current status of IT service delivery of one of the Nicaraguan ISPs. / QC 20110209

Am 29. und 30. November 2012 fand am Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH in Potsdam der 5. Deutsche IPv6 Gipfel 2012 statt, als dessen Dokumentation der vorliegende technische Report dient. Wie mit den vorhergegangenen nationalen IPv6 Gipfeln verfolgte der Deutsche IPv6-Rat auch mit dem 5. Gipfel, der unter dem Motto „IPv6- der Wachstumstreiber für die Deutsche Wirtschaft” stand, das Ziel, Einblicke in aktuelle Entwicklungen rund um den Einsatz von IPv6 zu geben. Unter anderem wurden die Vorzüge des neue Internetstandards IPv6 vorgestellt und über die Anwendung von IPv6 auf dem Massenmarkt, sowie den Einsatz von IPv6 in Unternehmen und in der öffentlichen Verwaltung referiert. Weitere Themen des Gipfels bezogen sich auf Aktionen und Bedingungen in Unternehmen und Privathaushalten, die für den Umstieg auf IPv6 notwendig sind und welche Erfahrungen dabei bereits gesammelt werden konnten. Neben Vorträgen des Bundesbeauftragten für Datenschutz Peter Schaar und des Geschäftsführers der Technik Telekom Deutschland GmbH, Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, wurden weiteren Beiträge hochrangiger Vertretern aus Politik, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft präsentiert, die in diesem technischen Bericht zusammengestellt sind. / The 5th German IPv6 Summit took place at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software System Engineering in Potsdam at November 29-30, 2012. This technical report is summarizing the talks and presentations and serves as a documentation of the summit. Like with previous IPv6 summits, the goal of this summit was to present current developments concerning the implementation of the new IPv6 technology from political and economic perspectives, as well as from a technological point of view. According to the motto "IPv6- der Wachstumstreiber für die Deutsche Wirtschaft", the advantages of the new Internet standards have been presented. Furthermore the application of IPv6 in industry, politics and administration has been discussed. The actions and procedures have been identified, which have to be applied for the change to IPv6 in industry and private households and gained experiences have been discussed. Besides presentations of the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection, Peter Schaar and Bruno Jacob Feuerborn, CTO at Deutsche Telekom, the summit was complemented by talks and presentations of high-ranking representatives from industry, government, and research.

Am 1. und 2. Dezember 2011 fand am Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH in Potsdam der 4. Deutsche IPv6 Gipfel 2011 statt, dessen Dokumentation der vorliegende technische Report dient. Wie mit den vorhergegangenen nationalen IPv6-Gipfeln verfolgte der Deutsche IPv6-Rat auch mit dem 4. Gipfel, der unter dem Motto „Online on the Road - Der neue Standard IPv6 als Treiber der mobilen Kommunikation” stand, das Ziel, Einblicke in aktuelle Entwicklungen rund um den Einsatz von IPv6 diesmal mit einem Fokus auf die automobile Vernetzung zu geben. Gleichzeitig wurde betont, den effizienten und flächendeckenden Umstieg auf IPv6 voranzutreiben, Erfahrungen mit dem Umstieg auf und dem Einsatz von IPv6 auszutauschen, Wirtschaft und öffentliche Verwaltung zu ermutigen und motivieren, IPv6-basierte Lösungen einzusetzen und das öffentliche Problembewusstsein für die Notwendigkeit des Umstiegs auf IPv6 zu erhöhen. Ehrengast war in diesem Jahr die EU-Kommissarin für die Digitale Agenda, Neelie Kroes deren Vortrag von weiteren Beiträgen hochrangiger Vertretern aus Politik, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft ergänzt wurde. / This technical report is summarizing the talks and presentations of the 4th German IPv6 Summit 2011 at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software System Engineering in Potsdam on December 1./2. 2011. The goal of this summit was to present current developments concerning the implementation of the new IPv6 technology from political and economic perspectives, as well as from a technological point of view. According to the motto 'Online on the Road - The New Technology Standard IPv6 as Driving Force for Mobile Communications" this year's focus was on automobile networking and communication. This year's guest of honor was EU commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes. Besides her, the conference was complemented by talks and presentations of high-ranking representatives from industry, government, and research.

Darbe nagrinėjama tema yra aktuali, kadangi toliau besivystanti informacinė visuomenė bei informacijos pateikimo būdai elektroninėje erdvėje sąlygoja pažeidimų vykdymą vis naujomis formomis. Pagrindiniai kylantys klausimai yra susiję su tokių pažeidimų darymo sustabdymu bei prevencijos galimybėmis. Pagrindinis darbo tikslas yra atskleisti interneto paslaugų teikėjų vaidmenį kovoje su neteisėtu intelektinės nuosavybės platinimu, išanalizuoti jų atsakomybės bei galimybių ribas. Darbe yra aptariami pažeidimai, kurie atsiranda elektroninėje erdvėje ir ypač išskiriama intelektinės nuosavybės pažeidimų specifika ir problematika. Taip pat aptariami intelektinės nuosavybės apsaugos elektroninėje erdvėje techniniai būdai ir jų pritaikomumas. Atsižvelgiant į išskirtus pažeidimus bei aptartus apsaugos būdus, darbe analizuojamas interneto paslaugų teikėjų vaidmuo šių apsaugos priemonių taikyme bei analizuojamas atsakomybės ribų nustatymas. Darbe yra supažindinama su nacionaline bei Europos Sąjungos teismų praktika situacijose, kada reikia nustatyti interneto paslaugų teikėjų atsakomybę bei įpareigojimų jiems nustatymo teisėtumą. Analizuojamas esamas reglamentavimas tiek Europos lygmeniu, tiek ir atskirų valstybių nacionalinės teisės lygmeniu bei taip pat paminima ir ne Europos Sąjungos valstybių praktika ir reglamentavimas. / The topic of the work is of great interest, since further development of information society and information presentation techniques in cyberspace leads to new forms of violations. Main questions that arise are related to stopping such violations and preventive measures that can be applied. The main goal of the work is to expose the role of the internet service providers in the fight against illegal distribution of intellectual property, to analize the limits of their liability and preventive possibilities. The paper dicusses the violations that occur in cyberspace and especialy infringements of intellectual property rights. Also the paper discusses the technical methods of intellectual property protection in cyberspace and their application. Given the analyzed infringements and protection measures, the paper also analyzes the role of internet sevice providers in applying these protective measures and the liability limits. The paper introduces the national and European Union case law relating situations in which it requires to establish internet service providers liability and established obligations legitimacy. The work analyzes the existing regulation on European level and on individual national levels, as well as regulation in non-European Union countries law.

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