John Demco
Nomination Committee Candidates for CIRA Election Announced – CIRA has announced the Nomination Committee Slate for the 2009 CIRA Board of Directors election. The candidates selected by the Nomination Committee are: Georges Courteau, Margaret Gilmour, Jim Grey, Christopher McCue, Genevieve Plank, and Victoria Withers. The process for determining the Members’ Slate begins on August 4.
Picks To Click
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Open Source software from the OpenDNSSEC Project is intended to drive the
adoption of DNSSEC. - “Wal-Mart Canada Takes Union To Court Over Trademarks”, by Andy Georgiades of Dow Jones Newswires.
- First Education Centre Network and CEC Turkey-KANADA EGITIM MERKEZI lose a dispute overkanadaegitimmerkezi.ca.
- “Domain Name Registry-Registrar Vertical Separation: The Economic, Anti-Trust Red Herring” by Michael Palage, in CircleID.
- “Could NTIA Please Put ICANN Out of Its Misery Before It Embarasses Itself Further”, by Harold Feld.
- CSNET has received the 2009 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. During the early 1980s, CSNET “provided the critical bridge from the original research undertaken through the ARPANET to the modern Internet.”
Timeline
- Tue, Aug 4 – Mon, Aug 17: call for Member Nominees for CIRA Board election
- Mon, Aug 24 – Mon, Sep 7: shows of support for Member Nominees for CIRA election
- Tue, Sep 15 – Tue, Sep 22: online forum for CIRA Board of Directors election
- Tue, Sep 22: CIRA Annual General Meeting in Toronto
- Wed, Sep 23 – Wed, Sep 30: CIRA Board of Directors election
- Sun, Oct 25 – Fri, Oct 30: ICANN meetings in Seoul, South Korea
- Sun, Mar 7 – Fri, Mar 12: ICANN meetings in Nairobi, Kenya