<div dir="ltr"><div>Minus "fooling ourselves" (because everyone has a right to an opinion)<br>+1<br><br></div>Nnenna<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Avri Doria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org" target="_blank">avri@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 22-Nov-14 03:36, Francisco Vera Hott wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">> or the "UN Security Council"
arguments.</span><br>
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I understand what they were doing trying to build a core team, a
remnant of the earlier champions idea, though I think it was
inappropriate and backfired. What I do not understand is how the
security council equivalence could be imagined - there was no notion
of veto anywhere in the concepts I read. I think that was a bit a
FUD that showed up in the shock blogs, that too many accepted as a
reasonable stance on what was being proposed.<br>
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I think that the JNC took a principled stance. I disagree with it
and think it premature, but I can see it as a thought out position
that fits within the concept of the CSCG. I think ISOC should be
praised for refusing a special seat and for continuing to consult
with the NMI folks. <br>
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It we think we are going to stop this by holding our breath until
they go away, we may just find ourselves excluding ourselves from
something that will then be able to go its own way without every
giving our various points of view a chance. And we will miss a
chance to move the NMI toward the multistakeholder participatory
democratic idea so many of us are dedicated to - no matter which
terms we use or eschew at any point in time. There is a large
segment of civil society that is not part of this little bubble of
ours, so we should not fool ourselves into thinking that our
refusal is the master switch of legitimization. Civil society will
take part, of that I have no doubt, it just may not be this part of
civil society.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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avri<br>
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