Issue 19, July 2009
July 01, 2009 Airports codes released
On 1 December 2008, SITA released the three-letter airport codes (location identifiers) - reserved exclusively for airport use since 2002 - for registration by eligible members of the aviation community, on a first-come-first-served basis. Three-letter codes that have already been registered, or whi...
July 01, 2009 New .aero sponsorship agreement with ICANN
SITA has signed a new 10-year sponsorship agreement with ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). The original agreement, signed in December 2001, had been due to expire in December 2006 but had been extended by ICANN (as was the case with other proof-of-concept sTLDs), to al...
July 01, 2009 Skysoft-ATM Launches open source initiative through www.albatross.aero website
Skysoft-ATM, a major solution provider to the airport traffic management (ATM) industry, recently announced the launch of the Albatross open source community project, based at www.albatross.aero. The company also announced a commitment to contribute leading technologies to the project. The first of ...
July 01, 2009 www.jcg.aero: "Securing the future of commercial aviation"
The Joint Co-Ordination Group (JCG) was formed by a group of aerospace industry information security experts to ensureharmonization between the information security efforts of all of the standards bodies affecting the commercial air transport industry. The Group does not make standards of its own, b...
July 01, 2009 Meet the registrars: InterNetX / PSI-USA
Since its foundation in 1998 in Regensburg, Germany, InterNetX has been recognized as a top provider of domain products and hosting solutions. With more than 2.7 million managed domains and approximately 1,400 hosted servers, InterNetX is one of the most successful wholesale traders for resellers an...
July 01, 2009 Deep down inside the Web
The World Wide Web Consortium (known universally as W3C) continues to be the driving force behind protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term evolution and development of the Web. We took the opportunity of talking to one of the leaders behind that process,W3C Fellow Dave Raggett. Dave Ragget...
July 01, 2009 INDUSTRY EVENTS
Aviation Outlook Summit - Australia Pacific 03-06 August 2009. Four Seasons Hotel - Sydney, AustraliaThis yearly event, held in cooperation with the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), sees ATI players in the Australia and Pacific region get together to explore opportunity and strategy for airl...
