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Feb 3	Poland Suspends ACTA Ratification: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced the country is suspending its ratification of the Anti-Counterfeitint Trade Agreement. The announcement comes following huge protests in cities across the country.
Feb 3	Beyond SOPA: ACTA, WIPO, and the Global Copyfight: Last week, I delivered a keynote address on copyright issues at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. The talk focused on the activism around SOPA and assessed the global strategies employed by the U.S. and copyright lobby groups of shifting away from WIPO toward closed negotiations ...
Feb 3	"Why I Signed ACTA": Slovenia's Ambassador to Japan offers a full explanation for why she signed ACTA:I signed ACTA out of civic carelessness, because I did not pay enough attention. Quite simply, I did not clearly connect the agreement I had been instructed to sign with the agreement that, according to my own civ...

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CircleID - Blogs

Feb 3	No Big Run on IPv4 in 2011: 2011 was an interesting year for IPv4: in February 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) handed out their last free IPv4 address blocks to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). In April 2011, the APNIC (the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region) started alloca...
Feb 3	World Notices That Verisign Said Three Months Ago That They Had a Security Breach Two Years Ago: The trade press is abuzz today with reports about a security breach at Verisign. While a security breach at the company that runs .COM, .NET, and does the mechanical parts of managing the DNS root is interesting, this shouldn't be news, at least, not now. Since Verisign is a public company, the...
Feb 1	Value or Love for New gTLDs?: ICANN has started its historic and controversial program to expand the number of generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). This essay outlines the factors needed for the program to create economic value, warns against a cognitive trap that complicates selection of a new gTLD and considers the value cont...

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Public Domain

Jan 26	My Predictions for 2012: This past year has been an interesting one, to say the least. We witnessed major decisions that will affect the top-level domain business dramatically, including the approval of .XXX and new gTLDs. And while I made a few predictions at this time last year, there were some events in 2011 that no-o...
Jan 25	French Character Internationalized Domain Names: This week we launched the second and final phase of our consultation to implement French character Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) (PDF) in .CA domain names. Over a three month period last fall, we worked with The Strategic Counsel to conduct an online consultation to gauge Canadians’ inte...

DomainPulse.com

Feb 4	ARI Webinar: Understanding .BRAND For Your Business: Monday February 6th 2012 at 3pm PST / Monday February 6th 2012 at 6pm EST / Tuesday February 7th 2012 at 10am AEST ARI Registry Services, a leading global provider of technical services for new Top-Level Domains, will host a special free webinar this Tuesday 7 February highlighting the implicatio...
Feb 4	ICANN Seeks Evaluators for the Support Applicant Review Panel (SARP) – Request for EOIs: ICANN is seeking individuals to serve on the Support Applicant Review Panel (SARP), an important component of the New gTLD Applicant Support Program that seeks to serve the global public interest by ensuring worldwide accessibility to, and competition within, the New gTLD Program. Panelists will ...

Domain Bits

2010 Aug	CIRA Board of Directors - Support Zak Muscovitch: Post updated - see updates in bold. If you are a dot ca domain holder, you may be aware that the elections for the CIRA Board of Directors are underway. Many of you know Zak Muscovitch, a domain name lawyer, whom we previously interviewed about Canadian domain laws.  Zak is seeking a seat on...
2009 Dec	TBR Over the Holiday Season: Just a quick note for the Canadian domainers out there – the TBR sessions scheduled for Wednesday December 23 and 30 will go ahead as normal. There will be no changes due to the holiday season.

Domain Name Forum for Canadians > CIRA

Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets > CIRA

Jan 19

EU Says Syria Spyware Ban Covers E-Mail Probes, Remote Infection: New rules regulating the sale of surveillance equipment to Syria now preclude technologies that “that can peer into the contents of e-mail or intercept telephone text messages” More specifically, “ban covers sales, maintenance and updates of systems for “deep-packet inspection” of e-mail content...

unrest.ca | By Kevin McArthur

Feb 2

ALPR - Amazing research, terrible transparency and dangerous agenda.: For the last 6 months I've been spending my off-hours working with a research collective consiting of Rob Wipond, Chris Parsons and Myself investigating the technology known as Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) and how it is being deployed by the RCMP and local police in Canada. I'm hap...

Frank for CIRA

Sep 13

Final Member Nomination Slate Published, Campaign Forum to Open: Wow, you pushed me through. Thank you everyone for making me one of the final 9 member nominated candidates in the CIRA elections. Thank you very much and congratulations to the other candidates who made it through as well – such a great roster of qualified candidates. Aguiar, Reinaldo Escobar, ...

KDB Systems > CIRA

Sep 15

Does CIRA need governance reform?: In a previous post I stated: “CIRA leads by example by being an open, democratic organisation with an elected board. Many organisations involved with Internet governance do not have open elections. The public, members, and stakeholders have limited input into how many Internet governance organisa...

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Description: 2011 CIRA Board Election Campaign Forum: Sept 13 - 20 at https://elections.cira.ca/2011/campaign/topics/en. The above ballot includes the CIRA CEO's blog (Public Domain) and several CIRA board election candidates' blogs. If this were a funded blog competition these might not be included, but given the lack of funding and consequent lack of independent blogs, it's helpful to include these "non-independent" blogs.

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