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Internet Management: Limited Progress on Privatization Project Makes Outcome Uncertain (open access)

Internet Management: Limited Progress on Privatization Project Makes Outcome Uncertain

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses privatizing the management of the Internet domain name system. This system is a vital aspect of the Internet that works like an automated telephone directory, allowing users to reach Web sites using easy-to-understand domain names like www.senate.gov, instead of the string of numbers that computers use when communicating with each other. The U.S. government supported the development of the domain name system, and, in 1997, the President charged the Department of Commerce with transitioning it to private management. The Department issued a policy statement, called the "White Paper," that defined the four guiding principles for the privatization effort as stability, competition, representation, and private, bottom-up coordination. After reviewing several proposals from private sector organizations, the Department chose the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a not-for-profit corporation, to carry out the transition. In November 1998, the Department entered into an agreement with ICANN in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under which the two parties agreed to collaborate on a joint transition project. Progress on and completion of each task is assessed by the Department on a case-by-case basis, with input …
Date: June 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 2002 (open access)

University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local, national, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: April 12, 2002
Creator: Chand, Daniel
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 153, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 12, 2002 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 153, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 12, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 12, 2002
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Tanya Palmer and Amy Wegener to Sterling Houston - August 12, 2002] (open access)

[Letter from Tanya Palmer and Amy Wegener to Sterling Houston - August 12, 2002]

Letter from Tanya Palmer and Amy Wegener, staff members of the Actors Theatre of Louisville, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. They write to inform him that he has been selected as a finalist for a Heideman Award, and that they will consider all finalists for production in an upcoming festival.
Date: August 12, 2002
Creator: Palmer, Tanya & Wegener, Amy
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Funeral Program for Weldon Bullard, April 12, 2002] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Weldon Bullard, April 12, 2002]

Funeral program for Mr. Weldon Bullard, born May 4, 1927 and died April 4, 2002. The funeral was held Friday, April 12, 2002 at Calvary Baptist Church, officiated by Pastor Kevin Nelson. Funeral arrangements were made through Lewis Funeral Home and he was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery near San Antonio, Texas.
Date: April 12, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-553 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-553

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a creating unit must review a development corporation's dissolution plan when the corporation is dissolving under article 5190.6, section 4A(k) of the Revised Civil Statutes, and related questions (RQ-0527-JC)
Date: September 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-554 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-554

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a towing company may provide certain services for the owner of a parking facility, and related questions (RQ-0528-JC)
Date: September 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-555 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-555

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Confidentiality of disability information collected by the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners, and related questions (RQ-0529-JC)
Date: September 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-556 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-556

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a particular special district must notify or obtain various political subdivisions’ consent before laying new or preparing existing water or sewer facilities located in county or municipal right-of-way, and related questions (RQ-0530-JC)
Date: September 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-462 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-462

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Effect on a constable's duties when his precinct is abolished by redistricting(RQ-0432-JC).
Date: August 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-463 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-463

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Disposition of funds previously accumulated under pretrial diversion agreements(RQ-0437-JC).
Date: February 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-464 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-464

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether article 3, section 19 of the Texas Constitution requires a Texas Department of Economic Development governing board member to resign from office in order to run for the Texas Legislature(RQ-0457-JC).
Date: February 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-476 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-476

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a commissioners court may establish and fund a courthouse security force and related questions.(RQ-0418-JC).
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-477 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-477

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Applicability of section 154.155(d) of the Finance Code to insurance-funded ,prepaid funeral benefits contracts(RQ-0434-JC).
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-478 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-478

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the State Board of Education is Authorized to control the adoption or development of statewide assessment instruments under chapter 39 of the Education Code and related questions(RQ-0436-JC).
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-479 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-479

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether certain eligibility requirements for a bail bond license application filed on May 28, 2001.
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Characterization of Vadose Zone Sediment: Uncontaminated RCRA Borehole Core Samples and Composite Samples (open access)

Characterization of Vadose Zone Sediment: Uncontaminated RCRA Borehole Core Samples and Composite Samples

The overall goal of the of the Tank Farm Vadose Zone Project, led by CH2M HILL Hanford Group, Inc., is to define risks from past and future single-shell tank farm activities. To meet this goal, CH2M HILL Hanford Group, Inc. asked scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to perform detailed analyses on vadose zone sediment from within the S-SX Waste Management Area. This report is the first in a series of four reports to present the results of these analyses. Specifically, this report contains all the geologic, geochemical, and selected physical characterization data collected on vadose zone sediment recovered from RCRA borehole bore samples and composite samples. Intact cores from two RCRA boreholes (299-W22-48 and 299-W22-50) near the SX Tank Farm and four, large-quantity grab samples from outcrop sediment on and off the Hanford Site were sampled to better understand the fate of contaminants in the vadose zone beneath underground storage tanks at the Hanford Site. Borehole and outcrop samples analyzed for this report are located outside the tank farms, and therefore may be considered standard or background samples from which to compare contaminated sediments within the tank farms themselves. This report presents our interpretation of the physical, chemical, and …
Date: February 12, 2002
Creator: Serne, R. Jeffrey; Bjornstad, Bruce N.; Schaef, Herbert T.; Williams, Bruce A.; Lanigan, David C.; Horton, Duane G. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Cloud Parameterizations in a High Resolution Atmospheric General Circulation Model Using ARM Data (open access)

Evaluation of Cloud Parameterizations in a High Resolution Atmospheric General Circulation Model Using ARM Data

Typical state of the art atmospheric general circulation models used in climate change studies have horizontal resolution of approximately 300 km. As computing power increases, many climate modeling groups are working toward enhancing the resolution of global models. An important issue that arises when resolution of a model is changed is whether cloud and convective parameterizations, which were developed for use at coarser resolutions, will need to be reformulated or re-tuned. We propose to investigate this issue and specifically cloud statistics using ARM data. The data streams produced by highly instrumented sections of Cloud and Radiation Testbeds (CART) of ARM program will provide a significant aid in the evaluation of cloud and convection parameterization in high-resolution models. Recently, we have performed multiyear global-climate simulations at T170 and T239 resolutions, corresponding to grid cell sizes of 0.7{sup 0} and 0.5{sup 0} respectively, using the NCAR Community Climate Model. We have also a performed climate change simulation at T170. On the scales of a T42 grid cell (300 km) and larger, nearly all quantities we examined in T170 simulation agree better with observations in terms of spatial patterns than do results in a comparable simulation at T42. Increasing the resolution to T239 …
Date: April 12, 2002
Creator: Govindasamy, B & Duffy, P
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimization of Hydroacoustic Deployments at John Day Dam (open access)

Optimization of Hydroacoustic Deployments at John Day Dam

This report describes short-term studies conducted in late November and early December 2001 to optimize hydroacoustic sampling techniques for John Day Dam before the 2002 fish passage efficiency (FPE) study. Knowledge gained in this study should significantly improve hydroacoustic sampling and the accuracy of estimates of fish passage at two locations that have presented problems in past studies. The spillway has been most problematic because many fish detected there were not entrained. Without correction, non-commitment of fish can result in multiple detections and overestimation of fish passage and FPE. Trash-rack-mounted, down-looking transducers for sampling unguided fish at a submerged traveling screen (STS) also have posed problems because the beam was aimed so far downstream that researchers had concerns about fish aspect and detectability. The deployments, aiming angles, and ping rates described here should eliminate all problems encountered in previous studies. This report describes hydroacoustic evaluations. The spill-bay deployment identified in this study should completely eliminate multiple detections of fish by limiting the sample volume for counting fish to the deep high-discharge volume adjacent to the gate. Results from testing of transducers deployed in a turbine intake with an STS suggest that, after testing in 2002, it may be possible to …
Date: November 12, 2002
Creator: Ploskey, Gene R.; Cook, Christopher B.; Titzler, P. Scott & Moursund, Russell A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Connecting to the Internet Securely: Windows 2000 CIAC-2321 (open access)

Connecting to the Internet Securely: Windows 2000 CIAC-2321

As the threat to computer systems increases with the increasing use of computers as a tool in daily business activities, the need to securely configure those systems becomes more important. There are far too many intruders with access to the Internet and the skills and time to spend compromising systems to not spend the time necessary to securely configure a system. Hand-in-hand with the increased need for security are an increased number of items that need to be securely configured. Windows 2000 has about seven hundred security related policy settings, up from seventy two in Windows NT. While Windows 2000 systems are an extension of the Windows NT 4 architecture, there are considerable differences between these two systems, especially in terms of system and security administration. Operational policy, system security, and file security are other areas where Windows 2000 has expanded considerably beyond the domain model of Windows NT 4. The Windows NT 4 Domain model consists of domains of workstations that, with a single login, share resources and are administered together. The database of user settings and credentials resides in the domain server. Domains can trust other domains to expand the sharing of resources between users of multiple domains. …
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Orvis, W; Call, K & Dias, J
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized System of Preferences (open access)

Generalized System of Preferences

This report provides information about the Generalized System of Preferences which provides duty-free treatment for products that are imported from some designated countries. The main purpose is to promote economic growth.
Date: August 12, 2002
Creator: Cooper, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
High Pressure Back up Air Piping Pressure Test (open access)

High Pressure Back up Air Piping Pressure Test

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Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Rucinski, Russell A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 2002 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 12, 2002
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Macroparticle simulation studies of a proton beam haloexperiment (open access)

Macroparticle simulation studies of a proton beam haloexperiment

We report macroparticle simulations for comparison withmeasured results from a proton beam-halo experiment in a 52-quadrupoleperiodic-focusing channel. An important issue is that the inputphase-space distribution is not experimentally known. Three differentinitial distributions with different shapes predict different beamprofiles in the transport system. Simulations have been fairly successfulin reproducing the core of the measured matched-beam profiles and thetrend of emittance growth as a function of mismatch factor, butunderestimate the growth rate of halo and emittance for mismatched beams.In this study, we find that knowledge of the Courant-Snyder parametersand emittances of the input beam is not sufficient for reliableprediction of the halo. Input distributions iwth greater population inthe tails produce larger rates of emittance growth, a result that isqualitatively consistent with the particle-core model of halo formationin mismatched beams.
Date: September 12, 2002
Creator: Qiang, J.; Colestock, P. L.; Gilpatrick, D.; Smith, H. V.; Wangler, T. P. & Schulze, M. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library