<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:07, Andrew Puddephatt <<a href="mailto:Andrew@gp-digital.org">Andrew@gp-digital.org</a>> wrote:</div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3">(</font><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3">…) </font><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3">I also feel that the Best Bits platform (not organisation) has been a way in which many new people have been able to enter the conversation about IG and internet policy issues but that there is a danger if the sterile nature of current discussions continues, they will driven away. (Several participants at Bali said they did not want BB to go the way of the IGC.) </font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3">(</font><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3">…</font><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3">) So I would ask the veterans in this debate to remember the adage of Jon Postel – be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send</font></div></blockquote></div><br><div>+1000^n</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>— Claudio</div></div></body></html>