Word: protocol
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...been as rare as 100 percent organic popcorn around the Monsanto break room. But there was Juan Mayr of Colombia, president of the United Nations conference on biosafety, breaking into tears as he announced early Saturday that after several years of contentious negotiations, an agreement had been reached. The protocol would allow countries to reject genetically modified foods without scientific evidence of harm, and it would require exporters to label shipments that may contain added genetic material, but it would not force them to separate normal and altered agricultural products...
Whether that happens is still very much in question. While representatives from all sides seemed happy with the results, the deal is essentially a back-end protocol: Bulk food products will be labeled for shipping, but the foods that show up on grocery shelves won't be required to have anything identifying them as containing GM materials. That's a battle for another round of talks...
...Lucent, and Canadian counterpart Nortel have built powerful, decades-long relationships with telephone companies and service providers. As voice and data networks converge--and data come to account for more than 90% of network traffic--Cisco has boasted that its networks, which are predominantly data or IP (Internet protocol) networks, will also become the leading voice networks...