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Talks about the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), a voluntary protocol that sets standards for Web providers to publish their privacy policies and allows Web users to automatically match those policies to their privacy preferences. Categories of privacy issues addressed by P3P; Information on how P3P works; Development of the P3P.

Reports on the Internet protocol-based telephony services of WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. in the U.S. as of October 14, 2002. Companies that launched voice over IP services; Information on the Session Initiation Protocol standard used by WorldCom; Services included in the data network of WorldCom.

Provides information on the implementation of simple network management protocol (SNMP) in a corporate setting. Components of SNMP; Details of how SNMP works; Information on the Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol.

Features the Internet Protocol telephony system from Cisco Systems Inc. and 3Com Corp. in California. Key features; Specifications; Applications.

Focuses on the various aspects of Internet Protocol, a computer network protocol. Key features; Specifications; Applications.

Focuses on the shipment of technology products based on 802.11a specification or Wi-Fi standard. Transmission rate of data using the products; Adoption of companies on 802.11a specification.

Reports on the plan of BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. to install a wireless local area network (LAN) used by retailers to help manage inventory and price verification, including support for wireless voice-over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phones and wireless scales. Improvement of customer service through integration of wireless IP phones; Requirements for the installation of wireless LAN; Configuration of data networks that support VOIP.

Presents an update on the computer industry in the U.S. as of May 6, 2002. Deployment of a storage over Internet protocol network for disaster recovery by Mesaba Aviation Inc.; Role of the disaster recovery system in preventing large profit losses; Other benefits from the system.

Presents information on the Internet protocol-based storage-area network (IP-SAN) architecture. Significance of the implementation of the Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (ISCSI) protocol for the IP-SAN architecture; Domain of Fibre Channel networks; Features of ISCSI networks.

Presents several suggestions for companies in the United States on how to get ready for the wireless technology. Examples of wireless technology devices; Regions where wireless technology has transformed businesses; Security problems of Wi-Fi.

Provides information on Virtela Communications Inc., a provider of virtual private network (VPN) services. Background on the Internet Protocol network of the company; Approach of the company to VPN services; Clients of the company.

Focuses on the Bluetooth wireless technology. Projected number of mobile phones and other types of handheld devices equipped with Bluetooth by 2005; Potential use of the technology.

Focuses on the passive attack method on the 128-bit version of the Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption algorithm used to protect the 802.11 wireless local area networks (LAN). Overview of a report on the attack method released by researchers from the Rice University and AT&T Labs; Effect of the attack method on LAN; How the attack method was discovered; Plan of the computer industry to create additional standard protection for the bit key.

Presents an article on information technology (IT) management. Methods used in creating a network diagram of his company's IT infrastructure; Comparison between Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol to authenticate remote virtual private network users; Benefits of using Nessus, a free Internet port-scanning tool.

Reports on the security problems revealed by a Finnish university project in several implementations of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Products affected by the security problems; Possible effects of the security problems; Software products with security problems; Description of LDAP; How the security problems were discovered.

Focuses on the development of InterPlaNetary (IPN) Internet to support communications among spaceships, robots and manned and unmanned outposts in the solar system. Invention of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol by Vinton Cerf; Concept of the IPN; Use of a bundle Internet protocol.

Reports that Midwest ISO, an independent systems operator, will deploy an Internet Protocol network to monitor and control the transmission of electrical power from independent power producers in areas located in the Midwest. Background on the organization; Description on its network command center in Carmel, Indiana; Tools of Midwest ISO in dealing with problems on transmission lines.

Deals with the support of IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. on the Internet Storage Name Service (ISNS), a proposed naming service standard for Internet Protocol-based storage networks. Reasons for supporting ISNS; Purpose of designing ISNS; Vendors that are co-authoring the standard.

Reports that Cisco Systems Inc. is addressing shortage concerns over public Internet addresses by supporting Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on the next iteration of its Internetworking Operating System. Aim of IPv6; Outlook of Scott Marcus, chief technology officer at Genuity Inc. on the prospects of IPv4 addresses.

Reports on the plan of MasterCard International Inc. to develop its Global Clearing Management System (GCMS) using the company's Internet Protocol network. Advantages of GCMS; Effect of the GCMS scheme on banks.

Deals with the function of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) which affect the performance of security in encryption. Details on its initial key-generation process; Function of bulk encryption; Other aspects of performance that should also be addressed.

Deals with the resignation of Philip Zimmerman, inventor of the encryption protocol Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) from Network Associates Inc. Reason for his resignation; Source code of the protocol that will not be published by the company; Design of the protocol.

Reveals that Germany-based bank HypoVereinsbank deployed filtering software that relies on the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP). Information on open standard for Internet proxy servers to communicate with content servers; Benefit of the move; Cost of implementation; Information on ICAP Forum.

Offers a look at the Network Address Translator (NAT), an Internet protocol. Discussions on the effect of the exponential growth of the Internet; Information on NAT device; Challenges raised by NAT.

Announces the decision of AT&T Corp. to start the operation of its OC-192 coast-to-coast Internet Protocol (IP) backbone. Benefit offered by the backbone; Route of the backbone.

Focuses on Global Commerce Internet Protocol, the first global standard for business-to-business e-commerce. Benefit offered by the standard; Goal of the standard.

Presents information on Packet Design, a company which aims to develop Internet Protocol services technologies. Examples of the kinds of technologies with which the company will be dealing; Comments from Judy Estrin, founder of the company; Background of Estrin.

Focuses on Kerberos, a computer network authentication protocol. Role of encrypted messages in using the protocol; Features of the protocol; Development of the protocol.

Focuses on Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), a directory standards released by Distributed Management Task Force Inc. Integration of Common Information Model to information technology products; Comments from Bill McCutcheon, a Lotus Notes administrator at Master Builders Inc.; Role of LDAP in the Novell Directory Services of Novell.

Provides information on file transfer protocol (FTP), a standardized method for sending uncoded binary files over Internet protocol connections. Development of FTP in 1969 by the United States Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects; How text files are being handled in FTP; Variations of FTP; Efficiency of FTP in downloading files over the Internet.

Predicts the increase in revenue of the Internet Protocol (IP) service business. Factors that influenced drive the increase.

Reports on the plans of Galileo International Inc. to replace its proprietary global network with an Internet Protocol (IP) wireless area network (WAN). Expected savings from the IP network; Capabilities of the network; Vendors involved in the construction of the network.

Focuses on the computer network protocol TCP/IP or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Definition of TCP/IP; Discussion on the Internet connections of TCP/IP; Supporters of TCP/IP.

Reports on computer software firm Microsoft Corp.'s submission of its Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Internet protocol to the International Engineering Task Force. Features of the proposed protocol; Security concerns expressed by industry analysts regarding the proposed protocol.

Deals with the benefit offered by Usenet-style conferencing based on Net News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) clients and servers. Capabilities of NNTP included in Netscape or Microsoft browsers; Why INN, the traditional Unix NNTP server considered legendary.

Presents information on Internet Protocol Security (IPsec), a suite of protocols used to secure private communications over the Internet. Capabilities of IPsec; Benefits of networks using IPsec; IPsec interoperability test conducted by the International Computer Security Association.

Deals with the expectation of the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) Consortium on the second version of the OBI computer network protocol. Members of the consortium; Capabilities of the version 2; Main advantage offered by the version 2 on sellers.

Provides information on point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP), a technology used by remote users to gain access with their networks. Benefits of the technology; How PPTP works; Difference between PPTP and point-to-point protocol (PPP).

Focuses on Netscape Communications Corp.'s Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), a computer network protocol that protects communications between any SSL-enabled client and server software running on a network that uses TCP/IP. Main purposes of the protocol; Benefits offered to Web users. INSET: Q&A from the developer..

Presents a graph showing worldwide revenue projections for Internet Protocol (IP) telephony gateways from 1999 to 2003.

Explains why companies should consolidate systems network architecture (SNA) into Internet protocol (IP)-based networks, according to the Gartner Group Inc. Includes cost of SNA networks; Scarcity of SNA-related skills; Internet-driven business opportunities which can only be addressed by IP.

Lists software vendors that have received interoperability certification for IPSec, a global standard for securing Internet Protocol connections, from the International Computer Security Association. Product manufactured by each vendor; Function.

Focuses on the development of the computer network, Internet2. Experimentation coordinated by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID); Development of computer network protocols for Internet2; Impact of undersea fiber cable network Project Oxygen on Internet2.

Provides information on the Internet protocol (IP) router-on-a-card from Effnet Inc. for use in Windows NT servers. Features of Effnet's Peripheral Component Interconnect-bus card.

Reports on the promotion of the OPENPGP security protocol to the status of proposed standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Background information on the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption protocol for Internet security; Details on OPENPGP.

Presents information on Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), a mechanism for getting information about electronic mail or messages from a corporate mail server. Uses; Difference from Post Office Protocol (POP); Problem which resulted from the different interpretations by vendors of the IMAP4 specification. INSET: Signed, Sealed and Delivered.

Looks at Internet companies' financial support for a nonprofit organization's management of domain names and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in the United States. Termination of the United States government's contract with domain-name provider Network Solutions Inc.; Details on the nonprofit board members recommended by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority; Comments from B.K. Delong of the New England Chapter of the World Organization of Webmasters.

Details the enhancement made by to the Internet Protocol version 6 that has been reviewed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Standards Committee. How the product was designed; Why the enhancement for the version 6 is inevitable; Factors that helped engineers make version 6 less critical. INSETS: IPv6 glossary;Enhancements to IPv6 from IPv4:.

Reports on the announcement of IBM that it will work with CyberCash Incorporated to incorporate Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) transactions into its IBM Payment Server. Comments from Janet Pruitt, senior vice president of electronic commerce at Visa International Service Association; Information on SSL; How SSL works.

Reveals that a Bell Labs' researcher has uncovered a possible security hole in one of the most popular encryption methods used for electronic commerce on the World Wide Web. Strategies that the major Internet software vendors are developing to deal with the potential flaw in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.