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The Protection Of Rights Management Information: Modernization Or Cup Half Full?, Mark Perry
The Protection Of Rights Management Information: Modernization Or Cup Half Full?, Mark Perry
Mark Perry
Many papers in this collection discuss the history and development of Bill C-32, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act, introduced into the Canadian Parliament on 2 June 2010, so that analysis will not be duplicated here. Among the failures of copyright reform has been the lack of addressing the required “balancing” of proprietary rights on the one hand, with user rights and the public domain on the other. Rights Management Information (RMI) can aid in this balancing. The RMI of a work is simply data that provide iden- tification of rights related to that work, either directly or indirectly. …
Differentiating Web Service Offerings, Halina Kaminski, Khalid Sherdil, Hanan Lutfiyya, Nazim Madhavji, Mark Perry
Differentiating Web Service Offerings, Halina Kaminski, Khalid Sherdil, Hanan Lutfiyya, Nazim Madhavji, Mark Perry
Mark Perry
The advent of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm and increasing use of Web Services (WS) implies that the future will see a large number of services transferred between providers and consumers, using many applications or agents working on behalf of humans. Discovering and using the services is the easy part. Negotiating and selecting the best services from amongst the plethora of similar ones, depending on their cost and quality, is the challenging issue. However, existing WS-I standards neither cater to provision of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), nor their exchange between parties. These standards are confined merely to WS description (WSDL). …
Who Counts Your Votes?, Halina Kaminski, Lila Kari, Mark Perry
Who Counts Your Votes?, Halina Kaminski, Lila Kari, Mark Perry
Mark Perry
Open and fair elections are paramount to modern democracy. Although some people claim that the penciland- paper systems used in countries such as Canada and UK are still the best method of avoiding vote rigging, recent election problems have sparked great interest in managing the election process through the use of electronic voting systems. It is a goal of this paper to describe a voting system that is secret and secure as well as verifiable and useable over an existing computer network. We have designed and implemented an electronic voting system – Verifiable E-Voting (VEV) – with an underlying protocol …