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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01-Dec-14 12:39, parminder wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:547C5376.7070101@itforchange.net" type="cite">If
we indeed generally are into being good and accommodative,
perhaps we could be as giving and gracious with regard to the UN
and its institutions as well, whether the ITU or a new possible
space for Internet governance and policy. But we do not offer them
similar considerations, do we.</blockquote>
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Yes, many of us do.<br>
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We participate in the ITU (I am sure you saw several of us at the PP
where we were participatory and not at all disruptive), the IGF, the
HRC and work with various other agencies of both the UN and the UN
system. I personally worked with some of the ITU-T architecture and
protocol study groups during the last century before WSIS was even a
concept. Currently many of us are knocking on the ITU Council
Working Group asking to be let in so we can have a seat at their
table. That is hardly vilification.<br>
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Yes, I object to the idea of the UN or ITU gaining supremacy over
the Internet but I and many others have long supported them as equal
footing participants in IG functions. <br>
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And yes, I would equally object to NMI or WEF gaining supremacy in
IG as well. I do not have the impression that they are trying to do
this. And if they try, we better be there to nip it in the bud. But
I support them being equal footing participants in IG in the same
way I support the UN and UN system organizations.<br>
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avri<br>
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