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		<title>Congressional Internet Caucus Hosted &quot;The Future of the U.S. Government&#039;s Role in ICANN&#8230;&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington DC &#124; Oct. 1, 2009: Today the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee hosted a briefing in the U.S. Capitol Building titled &#8220;The Future of the U.S. Government&#8217;s Role in ICANN, Internet Addressing and Internet Governance.&#8221; To listen to the panel discussion, please download the audio podcast at http://www.netcaucus.org/events/2009/icann/. The briefing featured experts on the relationship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commerce Department and ICANN Sign Historic  Accord on Internet Governance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, D.C &#124; Sep. 30, 2009: ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce have signed an historic Affirmation agreement supporting the ICANN model of international multi-stakeholder and bottom-up governance of the global Internet addressing system. “This new Affirmation marks an exciting new stage in ICANN’s development as a truly international entity and it confirms once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. FCC to meet Oct 22 for open Internet rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sep 24, 2009 10:20am EDT &#124; Reuters:  U.S. regulators have set an Oct. 22 meeting to formally propose a new &#8220;net neutrality&#8221; rule aimed at ensuring that network operators treat the flow of Internet content without discrimination, the Federal Communications Commission agency said on Thursday. At a meeting schedule for Oct. 22, the staff is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FCC Chair Genacowski formal statement &quot;to preserve the free and open Internet&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sep. 21, 2009 &#124; FCC &#124; Washington:  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined the concrete actions he believes the Commission must take to preserve the free and open Internet at a speech today at The Brookings Institution. “The Internet is an extraordinary platform for innovation, job creation, investment, and opportunity. It has unleashed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meerkatsrule.org/wordpress01/?p=816</link>
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		<title>ISOC-DC October meetings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 2:  Our ISOC-DC Leaders team contributed the funds for us to be a sponsor of IGF-USA.]]></description>
		<link>http://meerkatsrule.org/wordpress01/?p=804</link>
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		<title>FCC Endorses Network Neutrality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Cecilia Kang &#124; Washington Post &#124; Tues. Sep. 22, 2009 : The agency would be the &#8220;smart cop on the beat,&#8221; Genachowski said in a speech, outlining a plan to prohibit Internet service providers from blocking or slowing certain technologies and content on their networks. The chairman proposed that firms be required to make public the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meerkatsrule.org/wordpress01/?p=797</link>
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		<title>Tue. Sep. 22 &#8212; ISOC-DC and OneWebDay in DC</title>
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		<title>An ISOC-DC Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO The Internet is forty years old but still evolving&#8211;at an accelerating pace. According to some forecasters, in the next ten years we will see even more growth and new applications than we&#8217;ve seen in the last forty. Entire industries will be transformed. The Internet of Things connecting hundreds of billions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic reforms to telecommunications regulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy today announced fundamental reforms to existing telecommunications regulations in the interests of Australian consumers and businesses. These reforms will drive future growth, productivity and innovation across all sectors of the economy by: addressing Telstra’s high level of integration to promote greater competition and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meerkatsrule.org/wordpress01/?p=718</link>
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		<title>Report of Monday, Aug 17 ISOC-DC meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good meeting, excellent progress at our 3rd organizing meeting, Monday Aug 17. For a meeting report and continuing discussion, go to our ISOC-DC chapter discussion group www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2117168&#38;, or click &#8220;Continue Reading&#8230;&#8221; to read Mike Nelson&#8217;s meeting report here. We&#8217;ve made a lot of progress since our first meeting to restart the ISOC-DC chapter in June. [...]]]></description>
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