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How should the CIRA voter community divide funding among these blogs/websites?

Sep 6	ACTA Text Leaks: U.S. Concedes on Secondary Liability, Wants To Go Beyond DMCA on Digital Locks: Given the history of ACTA leaks, to no one's surprise, the latest version of the draft agreement was leaked last night on KEI's website. The new version - which reflects changes made during an intense week of negotiations last month in Washington - shows a draft agreement that is much clo...
Aug 30	Commercialization of IP In Canadian Universities: Barely Better Than Break Even: Last week, Statistics Canada released its latest report on the commercialization of intellectual property in Canadian universities. Canada spends billions of public dollars on research funding each year and the government has been increasingly focused on how best to commercialize the resu...
Aug 30	EU-Backed Study Finds Counterfeits Pro-Consumer, Rejects Company Complaints: A new report funded by the European Union has concluded that counterfeits have pro-consumer effects while rejecting claims of losses by established companies. The report concludes that most counterfeit purchases are not substitute for the genuine article and actually help promote the bran...

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CircleID - Blogs

Sep 6	DNS Clients Do Request DNSSEC Today: After the DNS root zone was finally signed and a number of Top-Level Domains (TLDs) began signing their zones, we were curious to see how many clients actually request DNSSEC information. We looked at the RIPE NCC server that provides secondary service to several country code top-level domains (c...
Sep 4	IPv6: Smart Investments and Smart Grids: IPv6 a major catalyst for billions of dollars worth of deals? The Intel announcement of their McAfee purchase for 7.7 billion seems to indicate as much when Dave DeWalt , McAfee CEO is quoted as saying during a conference call; "If we look at the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, we're seeing an expl...
Sep 1	ARF is Now an IETF Standard: When a user of a large mail system such as AOL, Yahoo, or Hotmail reports a message as junk or spam, one of the things the system does is to look at the source of the message and see if the source is one that has a feedback loop (FBL) agreement with the mail system. If so, it sends a copy of the ...

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Public Domain

Sep 2	Canadians Connected 2010: Warning: shameless self promotion follows. We’re very excited about our upcoming AGM. For the first time in our 10-year history, we’ve expanded our AGM to include an Internet symposium. We’re calling it Canadians Connected 2010, and it really is going to be a great event. We&rsq...
Aug 31	CIRA’s Board of Directors Election: You’re probably aware that CIRA is in the middle of an election for our Board of Directors. It’s probably a good time to explain some of our elections processes and talk about why they exist. The rumours are true: CIRA does have a complicated governance structure, and I’m ...
Aug 26	Canada’s Digital Economy: Over the summer, I took some time to read many of the submissions to Industry Canada’s Digital Economy consultation. As you know, CIRA participated in the consultation; you can read our submission here. In it, we make 19 recommendations, ranging from developing a Community Emergency Respons...

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