Nuestar (google CEO Jeff Ganek) is the group fronting AT&T and others for thier NSA activity. What is truly going on here gets real complex real fast even to someone in the industry that is familiar with the language and processes.
This is a job for investigative reporters (and organizations) with a staff of investigators working on following this individual and his business activities. Those investigators should look closer at the group of interests he is involved. Look at Nuelevel in addition to Nuestar. Nuelevel is involved with taking over the .net's and already owns and started .biz
We had a difficult time a few years back when the government in a famous 3:00 AM decision in Congress to create a corporation of a group of a half dozen retired generals and take over the entire internet registration, and effectively take over total control of the internet. It was, to make a long complex story short and wishing to not "glaze the eyes" of non-networking participants in this thread, that placed the first switch on the internet and created a monopoly that as an "incentive" for the generals made them multimillionaires. That structure remained the only game in town for those wishing to register domains for about 18 months until a consortium of independent ISP's and those freedom fighters that created the vision of the Internet like EFF and others were able to bring a case to strike down the congressional move. The company they formed is Network Solutions and needs to be watched. I was involved in that case on the periphery on the political side. The case we won has never been paid, I can't remember the exact figure, but was certainly in the tens of millions the public was ripped off for. In another secret 3:00 AM congressional decision they "took" (see stole) the moneys the court ordered (including the funds for our legal representation), and gave them to a little known governmental commission allegedly to be used on behalf of the users of the internet as they apparently, if I understand the argument, new what was best for us.
What this has to do with Nuestar and Nuelevel is this appears to be another attempt to install a "switch" somewhere on the Internet, though this time not on the whole internet but the .net's It looks like another installation in a piece by piece strategy that could conceivably overcome the "problem" with creating a monopoly by one company in control of the whole internet. Nuestar is referring to this as the usTDL project without publicly defining the project. TDL's are the .com .net .org, ect. etc. portion of domain names
View this redacted document (pages A 1-11, pages A 12-43 are "unavailable to the public" and appear to be classified) were it is stated they:
"Will be responsible for overall system delivery and will
manage the design and development processes of all usTLD systems".
In this doc they taught there ability to "provide transparency" to their clients
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/usca/cafiles/SectionA.pdfThey seem to be involved in an endeavor that establishes monopoly by narrow regions of control that effectively gives them control of whole regions of communications. See here on telephone issues they are referring to the "telecom transformation" were I provide this quote from Nuestar CEO Jeff Ganek (and former AT&T executive and other corps):
"Neustar manages all of the telephone numbers in North America. Providers need a copy of our database for calls to get routed. We exist to facilitate interoperability among thousands of networks that exchange trillions of transactions annually to connect the calls that go through them. The best way to do that was to establish a trusted directory provider we could rely upon. That's what Neustar does. We've got more than 100 million records in the database. It's a critical piece of the infrastructure.
We operate that infrastructure on the trust model. We're not a competing provider of services. We're trusted by all of the providers. They need a place to go to know where to route a message. The destination of the message is not on the network. It's elsewhere."
http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2004/06/25/telecom_transformation.htmlThere's a ton of info concerning what these folks are up to and as I said it's going to take a staff and a whole project to flesh the whole story. Unfortunately it looks like another mess that EFF will have to clean up. This has that ODOR to it that I've whiffed before. It's a Nuestar/Nuelevel alright......
I'm posting this info as a starting thread in General in the hopes it will not get berried.
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