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In my previous post about this years ARIN elections, I promised to write a bit more about my own candidacy.  I guess in political terms that means outlining my platform.  Lucky for me, that is actually quite simple, my platform can be summarized in one word: Openness. Openness defines my candidacy for two reasons; it [...]

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It is that time of year again folks, time for the back to back NANOG and ARIN meetings and the annual ARIN election.  This means that if your company is involved with the Internet, you should at the very least be paying attention, if not registering to attend one or both of these meetings.  If [...]

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What can Thomas Jefferson teach us about the Internet?  At first this may seem an absurd question.  Who would imagine that a man who died more than a century before the Internet was even considered, could teach us about such a modern concept as cyberspace?  Why should we turn to a man who was born [...]

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I finally got around to watching the recording of Lawrence Lessig‘s 15 May speech “the search for a moose” (inspired at least in part by “In Search of Jefferson’s Moose“) in Berlin at a Heinrich Böll Foundation event.  Although I have seen many of his remix examples before, I still enjoy watching them and they [...]

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Press Release from Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardeners International and Eat the View: Maine Gardener Appeals to the Next ‘Eater-in-Chief’ Roger Doiron, an organic gardener from Scarborough, Maine may have less than a third of an acre to work with in his own yard, but it hasn’t stopped him from thinking big.  Over the [...]

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Well, the results are now official; I did not get a seat on the ARIN AC this year. I will of course continue my activity on the ARIN PPML and hopefully make it to (at least one or two of) next years meetings. Who knows, maybe I will run again in 2009! Congratulations to everyone [...]

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The ARIN XXII meeting report was made available today. It contains, among many other things, a transcript of all the BoT and AC candidate speeches that were made on Friday morning. I have copied mine here: MR. GRUNDEMANN: Good morning. Yes, I’m Christopher Grundemann. I was sitting there thinking about what I could say up [...]

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The 2008 ARIN Election is now open. Make sure your voice is heard.

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Not knowing where you would like to go is a sure way to end up somewhere else. Or as Draper L. Kaufman, Jr. put it: “Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get.” The first step in creating that future is determining what it is.

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