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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/01/14 21:05, parminder wrote:<br>
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<font face="Verdana">What is being questioned here is whether we
are ready to accept 1NET as our single conduit to the Brazilian
meeting, which hopefully is going to be a very important one for
the future of global Internet governance. <br>
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Will this even be an issue after the civil society representatives
to the Brazil committees are appointed (which should happen within
24 hours by my estimation)? Whilst the LOG asked for 1net to be the
conduit for receiving the committee nominations, there has been no
suggestion that 1net will continue to be a conduit once the new
committees are in place. 1net, like the LOG, becomes superfluous
from that point forward.<br>
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I also doubt whether 1net will be able to collectively put forward
anything much substantive for the meeting, because there is so
little common ground. In contrast Best Bits participants will very
likely have joint substantive contributions through our ongoing
processes, and Norbert has just announced he plans to do something
very similar for the IGC. So 1net may end up being less of a
threat, and more of a damp squib.<br>
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I don't discount anything that you're saying about the political
play that the technical community intended to make with 1net, but I
just think it has largely misfired and is not going to be half as
influential or powerful as they hoped it was going to be.<br>
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