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We just finished the ICANN meeting in Wellington, New Zealand.

For one of the last resolutions of the ICANN board meeting, Vint asked the board to show their support by swaying back and forth in their seat. He promised to explain it later, but wasn’t able to. Some people already noticed the way the Board voted, but without fully understanding why.

Therefore, Joichi Ito decided it is his role in the interest of transparency, to explain the reference.

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Thought that I didn’t write about the Bulgarian Internet Society project on Internet Governance…

Make sure you don’t miss to visit www.isoc.bg/ig.

The idea behind this portal is to make it the ultimate place for Internet Governance. We usually publish in a timely manner what’s going on, and sometimes we are the first one to publish some information there.

Enjoy.

Stanislaw Lem, a Polist sci-fi author, who wrote a number of great sci-fi books, among which Solaris (filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1971; a remake produced by George Clooney was released in 2002), has died in Krakow on March 27, 2006. He was 84 years old.

Lem’s books have been translated into 40 languages and sold about 30 million copies.

He is the best single sci-fi author of the late 20th century not to write in English.

Lem often wrote in comical style but examined serious moral questions about technological progress, the limits of science and our place in the universe. His famous stories about pilot Pirks and professor Ijon Tihi are among my favourite books.

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We are in Wellington.
If you don’t know where it is, check Google.
It’s far, far away, in a galaxy so different, that:

- cars drive on the left side of the road
- at airports they take your little ticket coupon, and give you back the big one – in all other countries it’s the other way around.

But enough about New Zealand, let’s see what ICANN meeting will be…

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Interesting news from the EU IS portal:

On the 29th of March a total solar eclipse will be observable from the rural island of Kastelorizo in Greece, 72 nautic miles east from the island of Rhodes.
The D-Space team in collaboration with the Greek Astronomical Society are organising a mission to Kastelorizo in order to set up 2 solar telescopes and to transmit live the phenomenon through satellite and terrestrial link to the web.
The observation will be broadcasted in the Discovery Space site (www.discoveryspace.net) so as for everybody to be able to watch the phenomenon in real time.

If you are a chief executive, a visionary, or a decision-maker, and have not been at the PC Forum, you must consider going.

For all others, subscription for the Release 1.0 is a good start.

See my impressions from the PC Forum 2006 in this short metmo.

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Honoring the ICANN meeting in New Zealand, I decided to launch today my new web site.

It’s at www.veni.com, and unlike the first ten years since it was founded, when it didn’t have a design, now it’s a fully functional, well designed site (well, some pages are still under construction at this very moment, but that will be fixed by my Birthday, I hope).

Enjoy veni.com

Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides a flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, recently unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Bulgaria.

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Yes, it’s a headline in French – a language I don’t speak.

The Mystere des Voix Bulgares is a Bulgarian female choir, a Grammy award winner (1990).
They performed on March 3rd (National holiday of Bulgaria) in New York’s Symphony Space. The concert was fantastic. Hall was full with fans of the great performers, and we called them for three more songs than orginally written in the program.

The concert was made with the kind support from Mr. Nikolay Milkov – Consul General of the Republic of Bulgaria to New York, and Natalia Uzunova – cultural attache to the Consulate General.

Instead of wondering what to write, I will quote some of the notes about them, published at different sites.

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… well, at least one part of it.

As ICANN announced, the Board approved the VeriSign Settlement Agreement.

Here’s the full text of the ICANN note and my remarks:

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