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GA-DIGEST            Monday, April 9 2001            Volume 01 : Number 364

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:31:26 +0200
From: Alexander Svensson <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Results of ranking vote for Chair and Alternate Chair to  the GA

> On Sun, 08 Apr 2001 12:59:36 -0500, you wrote:
>>Congratulations and Best Wishes to our New Leaders:
>>
>>Danny Younger
>>
>>Patrick Corliss
>>
>>Good Luck Guys......:)
>>

> Ditto for me.  Congrats to both as you move into roles which will be
> very important in increasing the respect and influence of the GA.

...and we should not forget the great efforts of
Roberto and Harald in this thankless job:
Thanks to both of you, and congratulations to the
new Chair and Vice-Chair!

Best regards,
/// Alexander
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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 13:36:15 +0100
From: Pilar Luque <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Language Diversity in ICANN working practices

Dear Jefsey at all,

Thank you for your suggestion.  It shows interest and support.

Could I call for support on this suggestion?

The paper I am drafting is not only for the benefit of the ccTLD
Community but for the whole of the ICANN community.

Could I suggest you all you help me in drafting a list with those so
called 300 ICANN/Internet specialised jargon terms.

I will be compilating the list but I need your help, please!!!

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Ms Pilar LUQUE (.es cTLD External Relations Manager) 

Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> 
> Dear Pilar,
> I thank you for all your efforts in favor of the multilanguage support.
> Yet I would suggest another track to reach a better understanding
> among Internet users of every language ... starting with English.
> 
> The first cause of difficulties is the lack of common understanding
> of the used words. I wold propose that we start first with a lexical.
> There are probably 200 or 300 words specific to the Internet that
> could be commonly - at no big expense - worked out in most of the
> existing languages, with a good stable explanation.
> 
> 1) this would probably help adapting translation programs.
> 2) it would also help reducing translation costs a lot since the
>      interpreters would not need to be spcialized.
> 3) it would probably save a lot on text length and hence on
>      tanslation costs and costs explanations to press, govs,
>      users, etc...
> 
> All the best to you.
> Jefsey
> 
> On 11:52 09/04/01, Pilar Luque said:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >
> >As you may all remember, as a result of the dicussion on language
> >Diversity during the ICANN Melbourne meetings and as the Chairmann of
> >the Board asked me to help on the building of a Paper for Public
> >Discussion,  I am preparing for a paper for approval from Mr Vint Cerf
> >to be dicussed
> >during the Stokholm Public Forum with exact data on cost and
> >organisational needs for Language Diversity in ICANN working
> >procedures.  I am getting my data from sources such as the ITU, UN and
> >European Union Simultaneous Interpreting and Translating Depatments.  I
> >will post the results as soon as I have them ready.
> >
> >I will be expecting your wholehearted support.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Pilar LUQUE (.es ccTLD External Relations Manager)
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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 08:11:21 -0400
From: Sotiris <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Removal of Directors

DPF wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 09:16:04 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 09:41:22AM -0400, babybows.com wrote:
> >> Siegfried Langenbach has made a very reasonable comment.  In requesting that
> >> Directors Alejandro Pisanty and Jonathan Cohen justify their decision (to
> >> vote against the consensus position of the DNSO)
> >
> >Correction: contrary to popular belief, there was no consensus position
> >of the DNSO.  The vote in favor of retaining the current contract was
> >only 9 out of the 19 directors -- not even a majority, and far less
> >than that required for a determination of consensus.
>
> And what was the vote in favour of the new contract?  Around 5 out of
> 19?
>
> It would seem common sense and courtesy for the DNSO appointed
> Directors to at least communicate why they voted the way they did.
> They have no legal obligation to do so, but if they want reappointment
> it would seem sensible.

I would agree!

SS

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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 14:41:38 +0200
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [ga] percentages and numbers of cases

I think we agree on the problem (no factual knowledge) and on the available 
remedy (statistics); what follows below is mainly about details...

At 01:11 09.04.2001 -0700, Roeland Meyer wrote:
>Also, one of the most damning arguments is that court cases are
>puclicly available documents and, as you indicate here, UDRP cases aren't.

I think you are mistaken on both counts :-)
court documents are not always public, due to privacy concerns.
UDRP cases are publicly documented.
http://www.icann.org/udrp/proceedings-stat.htm gives some summary stats.

What I think will not be public is WIPO's evaluation of the performance of 
their panelists.

> > (BTW, wrt the "someone, somewhere" above: reports of problems
> > that have
> > domain names and WIPO/NADF/xxx docket numbers are quite a bit
> > easier to
> > discuss than "someone once reported that they had a problem".....)
>
>Neither of them are very interesting except where there are many of them
>with the same symptoms.

But a claim that there are many of them with a symptom looks SO much better 
when it quotes at least a few of those that have that symptom....

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:07:12 +1000
From: "Patrick Corliss" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] Internet Acronyms

Hi Pilar

This might help a little.  There is also an "Acronym Finder".
Please could anyone advise any errors or omissions.

ACIR    Advanced Computational Infrastructure and Research
Division of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (see CISE)
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/acir/
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf0065/cise/acir.htm

ACM    Association for Computing Machinery
http://www.acm.org/

ACPA    Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
http://209.41.60.248/law/ACPA.html
http://www.gcwf.com/articles/journal/jil_march00_1.html

AF    Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

ADNS    AGN Domain Name Service, Inc.
http://www.adns.net/

AfterNIC    Domain Name Auctions, Research and Management
http://www.afternic.com/

ALTNIC    AlterNIC -- The Network Information Centre
http://www.alternic.org/

ANIR    Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research
Division of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (see CISE)
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/anir/index.html
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf0065/cise/anir.htm

APNIC    Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
(Regional Registry)
http://www.apnic.net/

APTLD    Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Forum
http://www.apng.org/apcctld/

ARIN    American Registry for Internet Numbers
(Regional Registry)
http://www.arin.net/

ARPA    Advanced Research Project Agency
http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/arpa.html

ASO    The Address Supporting Organization
http://www.aso.icann.org/

ASP    Application Service Providers Industry Consortium
http://www.aspindustry.org/
http://www.allaboutasp.org/

Atlantic    The Atlantic Root Network, Inc.
http://www.biztld.net/

auDA    Australian Domain Administration
http://www.auda.org.au/

AUNIC    Australian Network Information Centre
http://www.aunic.net/

AURSC    Australian Root Server Confederation
http://www.irsc.ah.net/

BBN    BBN Planel (Now BBN Technologies)
http://www.bbn.com/
http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/bbnt/aboutus.html

Berkman    Berkman Center for Internet & Society (of Harvard Law School)
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/

BIND    Berkeley Internet Name Domain (or Daemon)
http://www.nominum.com/    http://www.isc.org/

BIZ    dot BIZ  (see also Atlantic Root Network, Inc.)
http://www.biztld.net/

CCR    Computer-Communications Research
Division of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (see CISE)
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/ccr/index.html
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf0065/cise/ccr.htm

CDT    Centre for Democracy & Technology
http://www.cdt.org/

CERT    Carnegie Mellon - CERT Co-ordination Center
http://www.cert.org/

CIPO    Canadian Intellectual Property Office
http://cipo.gc.ca/

CIRA    Canadian Internet Registration Authority
http://www.cira.ca/

CISE    Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Directorate of the National Science Foundation (see NSF)
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/

CNRI    Corporation for National Research Initiatives
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/

CORENIC    CORE -- Internet Council of Registrars
http://corenic.org/

CPSR    Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
http://www.cpsr.org/

CSIF    Civil Society Internet Forum
http://www.civilsocietyinternetforum.org/

DARPA    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
http://www.arpa.mil/

DNH    The Domain Name Handbook
http://www.domainhandbook.com/

DNSO    Domain Name Supporting Organization
http://www.dnso.org/
http://www.dnso.icann.org/

DNSR    DNS Root
http://www.dns-root.org/

DNSRD    Domain Name System Resources Directory
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/

DOC    United States Department of Commerce
http://www.doc.gov/

EFF    Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/

EPIC    Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://epic.org/

FCC    United States Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov/

GAO    United States General Accounting Office - ICANN Report
http://www.gao.gov/docdblite/summary.php?accno=163837&rptno=OGC-00-33R
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/og00033r.pdf  (PDF Format)

GAC    Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN
http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/international/DNS/gac/index.htm

GOD    dot GOD
http://www.dot-god.com/

gTLD-MoU    Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding
http://www.gtld-mou.org/

HIT    Hobbes' Internet Timeline
http://www.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html

IAB    Internet Architecture Board
http://www.iab.org/

IAHC    Internet International Ad Hoc Committee
http://www.iahc.org/index.html

IANA    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
http://www.iana.org/

ICANN    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
http://www.icann.org/

ICB    ICB Toll Free News
http://www.icbtollfreenews.com/

IDNO    The Individual Domain Name Owners Constituency
http://www.idno.org/

iDNS    Internationalized Domain Name System
http://www.i-dns.net/

IETF    The Internet Engineering Task Force
http://www.ietf.org/

ILPF    Internet Law and Policy Forum
http://www.ilpf.org/

INTA    The International Trademark Association
http://www.inta.org/

InterNIC    Internet Network Information Center
http://www.internic.net/

INWW    Internet Names Wordwide (Division of Melbourne IT)
http://www.inww.com/

IOD    Image Online Design, Inc.
https://www.webtld.com/

IOPS    Internet Operators
http://www.iops.org/

IPC    The Intellectual Property Constituency
http://ipc.songbird.com/

IPI    Internet Policy Institute
http://www.internetpolicy.org/

IRSC    International Root Server Confederation
http://www.irsc.ah.net/

IRTF    Internet Research Task Force
http://www.irtf.org/

ISC    Internet Software Consortium
http://www.isc.org/

ISI    USC Information Sciences Institute
http://www.isi.edu/

ISOC    Internet Society
http://www.isoc.org/
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html

ISOC-AU    Internet Society of Australia
http://www.isoc-au.org.au/

ISS    Internet Security Systems
http://www.iss.net/

ITAA    Information Technology Association of America
http://www.itaa.org/

ITU    International Telecommunications Union
http://www.itu.int/

MIT    Melbourne IT
http://www.melbourneit.com.au/

NANOG    North American Network Operators
http://www.ra.net/~nanog

NARSC    North American Root Server Confederation
http://narsc.lists.kz/

NCDHNC    Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency
http://www.ncdnhc.org/

NCSA    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

NICUS    Official United States Domain Registry
http://www.nic.us/

NOIE    Australian National Office for the Information Economy
http://www.noie.gov.au/

NS    Name Space
http://name-space.com/

NSF    National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/

NSI    Network Solutions
http://networksolutions.com/

NTIA    National Telecommunications and Information Administration
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/

OpenNIC    Open Network Information Centre
http://www.opennic.unrated.net/

ORSC    Open Root Server Confederation, Inc
http://www.open-rsc.org/

OpenSRS    Open Shared Registration Service
http://www.opensrs.com/

OpenXRS    Open Extensible Registry System
http://openxrs.tucows.com/

PACROOT    The Pacific Root
http://www.pacroot.com/

PCCF    Planet Communications & Computing Facility
http://www.pccf.net/
http://www.pccf.net/cgi-bin/root-servers/whereis-tld?+

PGP    PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy") Security
http://www.pgp.com/

PSO    Protocol Supporting Organization
http://www.pso.icann.org/

RFC    Request for Comments
http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html
http://www.rfc-editor.org/

RIPE    RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) Network Coordination Centre
(Regional Registry)
http://www.ripe.net/

SAIC    Science Applications International Corporation
http://www.saic.com/

SEI    Carnegie Mellon - Software Engineering Institute
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/

SEC    United States Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.sec.gov/

SRI    SRI International (was Stanford Research Institute)
http://www.csl.sri.com/
http://www.csl.sri.com/history/augment.shtml

SuperRoot    The SuperRoot Consortium
http://www.superroot.org/

TBTF    Tasty Bits from the Technology Front ("Roving Reporter")
http://www.tbtf.com/roving_reporter/

TINC    The Internet Namespace Cooperative
http://www.tinc-org.com/

TLD Finder    Top Level Domain Finder (see PCCF)
http://www.pccf.net/cgi-bin/root-servers/whereis-tld?+

UDRP    Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy
http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm

USPTO    United States Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/

VeriSign    VeriSign, Inc.
http://www.verisign.com/

WEB    dot WEB
https://www.webtld.com/

WIPO    World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.org/

W3C    World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/

Thank you.
Patrick Corliss

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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 08:57:38 -0500
From: Weisberg <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Results of ranking vote for Chair and Alternate Chair to the GA

> > Ditto for me.  Congrats to both as you move into roles which will be
> > very important in increasing the respect and influence of the GA.
>
> ...and we should not forget the great efforts of
> Roberto and Harald...

Double ditto; and,

Ditto for the Election Watchdog Committee, which published a detailed
report on the election
<http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/b04fullrecord.html> listing the voters,
the order of preferences of each returned, the decision process for
handling each irregular ballot, as well as the way each round of
elimination worked.  It is a wonderful window into the workings of
STV/IRV.  Thanks.

BTW, as I read the report, the decision to re-run the process eliminating
the first place finisher in the first round (i.e. our choice for Chair) to
calculate our preference for alternate chair, produced a different result
than simply taking the top two candidates from the first round (as had
been postulated).

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 07:17:13 -0700
From: "Jeff Field" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] And these mean?

Kudos to the first person that knows all the below listed (and recently used
on this list) acronyms:

NADF
SEI
LASC
NGO
RTFA
APA
RSN
YMMV
RIR
IM(nl)HO  <---just the "nl" part)
CNPB
MHSC
STV

Regards,

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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 10:22:33 -0400
From: Sandy Harris <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Internet Acronyms

Patrick Corliss wrote:
> 
> Hi Pilar
> 
> This might help a little.  There is also an "Acronym Finder".

Also some glossaries:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1208.txt
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1983.txt
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2828.txt
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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 07:36:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Patrick Greenwell <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [ga] serious participation in ICANN processes 

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Dassa wrote:

> This is one area that the UDRP really disappoints me.  It should be a
> mechanism to a handle ALL domain disputes and not just trademark issues.

That would be in direct contradiction to statements made in the USG White
paper.

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
                               Patrick Greenwell
                       Earth is a single point of failure.
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 11:03:59 -0400
From: Jonathan Weinberg <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Results of ranking vote for Chair and Alternate Chair to  the GA

         I want to add my voice to congratulate Danny and Patrick and to 
thank Roberto and Harald for their unstinting, extended efforts.
(Also, this is a belated congratulations to Harald on his new job as chair 
of the organization where they do the *real* work the results of which we 
fight about in ICANN.)  This is an important year for the GA; I'm confident 
that Danny and Patrick will do a great job moving us forward.

Jon

At 01:31 PM 4/9/2001 +0200, Alexander Svensson wrote:

> > On Sun, 08 Apr 2001 12:59:36 -0500, you wrote:
> >>Congratulations and Best Wishes to our New Leaders:
> >>
> >>Danny Younger
> >>
> >>Patrick Corliss
> >>
> >>Good Luck Guys......:)
> >>
>
> > Ditto for me.  Congrats to both as you move into roles which will be
> > very important in increasing the respect and influence of the GA.
>
>...and we should not forget the great efforts of
>Roberto and Harald in this thankless job:
>Thanks to both of you, and congratulations to the
>new Chair and Vice-Chair!
>
>Best regards,
>/// Alexander
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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 07:58:55 -0700
From: Dave Crocker <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [ga] serious participation in ICANN processes 

At 02:21 AM 4/9/2001, Dassa wrote:
>This is one area that the UDRP really disappoints me.  It should be a 
>mechanism
>to a handle ALL domain disputes and not just trademark issues.

It is important to crawl before walking.  The UDRP is rather experimental, 
given its global implication.  Hence it is important to start with the 
narrowest mechanism possible, to limit the damage if there are serious 
problems.  (Please see your previous postings for examples of such concerns.)

There were attempts to expand the scope of the UDRP but they were -- very 
wisely -- resisted.

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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 07:56:05 -0700
From: Dave Crocker <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [ga] ICANN benefits

At 02:13 AM 4/9/2001, Dassa wrote:
>|> From: On Behalf Of Dave Crocker
><<SNIP>>
>|> Trademark conflicts were ambiguous and expensive.  In fact, NSI gave
>|> trademark holders much more power than they have in law.  Now we have the
>|> UDRP and things are vastly more straight-forward and vastly cheaper.
>
>The UDRP gives trademark holders much more power than they have in law and
>actually contradicts a lot of legal provisions with regards to trademarks.  It
>is more straight forward and vastly cheaper for trademark holders but
>discriminates against domain registrants, making it more expensive and in some
>cases, impossible to get redress.

1. You <<snipp>>ed my statement acknowledging that the UDRP needs improvement.

2.  You are ignoring that the UDRP is a vast improvement over the NSI policies.

3.  You assertion that the UDRP gives trademark holders "much" more power 
can be debated.  In any event, see #1, above.

4.  You ignore that the UDRP makes the process vastly cheaper for the 
domain holder, as well as the trademark claimant.

5.  You have no statistics to support your claims of unfairness as a 
substantial pattern.

d/

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:57:50 -0400
From: "Joanna Lane" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] New York Law Journal Report

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:54:01 -0700 
From: Roeland Meyer <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [ga] percentages and numbers of cases

> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 5:42 AM
> 
> I think we agree on the problem (no factual knowledge) and on 
> the available remedy (statistics); what follows below is mainly about
details...

YEs, agreed.

> At 01:11 09.04.2001 -0700, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> >Also, one of the most damning arguments is that court cases are
> >puclicly available documents and, as you indicate here, UDRP 
> cases aren't.
> 
> I think you are mistaken on both counts :-)
> court documents are not always public, due to privacy concerns.
> UDRP cases are publicly documented.

I maybe a little US-centric here, but court decisions are always public
unless specifically, with justification, sealed. That seal must itself be
defended or it will not stand. WRT UDRP, I am taking the queue from your
statements.

> http://www.icann.org/udrp/proceedings-stat.htm gives some 
> summary stats.

I thank you for the link. I wasn't aware of it.

These are of limited usefulness. There is also a time component that is
completely ignored (how many cases over what time? How long from initial
filing to decision?)  There is also the issue of quantitative data (How many
cases per complainant? How many per defendant? How many cases per panelist?)
These questions are only trivial examples. With some work, we can have
detailed questions that the statistics should be able to answer.

> What I think will not be public is WIPO's evaluation of the 
> performance of their panelists.

Management stats don't just evaluate individual job performance. They also
evaluate performance of the system. I agree that individual panelists are
internal WIPO issues, for now. But, they should become internal ICANN
issues.

> > > (BTW, wrt the "someone, somewhere" above: reports of problems
> > > that have
> > > domain names and WIPO/NADF/xxx docket numbers are quite a bit
> > > easier to
> > > discuss than "someone once reported that they had a problem".....)
> >
> >Neither of them are very interesting except where there are 
> many of them
> >with the same symptoms.
> 
> But a claim that there are many of them with a symptom looks 
> SO much better 
> when it quotes at least a few of those that have that symptom....

What I had in mind was a repository of abtracts coupled with an intelligent
search engine. Google is one and Alta Vista is another. Most of the
remainder have a lot of "manual process" in their operations. But that is
not nearly enough. The arbitrators should also be required to enter
statistical values about their cases. Just what these values should be, is
to be determined by analysis of representitive cases.

Every case has metrics points in common with all other cases. What this
means is that the entire UDRP process comes under management control.
Panelists can now be graded and decisions can be compared for consistancy,
on an objective basis. We can also start profiling "good faith" and work on
imnproving the process. Moreover, it can be published so that the process
becomes transparent.

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