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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Parminder, <br>
There is a slight inaccuracy in your words here: <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/28/16 08:59, parminder wrote:<br>
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People like Nick Ashton will actively argue at global forums like
this, that no, there is no need to have a separate Internet or
digital policies related body, and all such areas can very well be
dealt by policy bodies looking at respective impacted domains
(work, education, governance, etc) ... </blockquote>
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It is not "people like Nick Ashton", it is the General Assembly of
the UN (UNGA), which decided in the WSIS+10 discussion that there is
no need for a separate body. It is the UNGA that decided that the
IGF is the forum to continue to discuss in the next 10 years all
issues Internet related. To say that this is argument of "people
like Nick Ashton" is not accurate. It is not (only) people, it is
the member states of the UN. <br>
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By the way, India also supported this model. And Bulgaria - which
can only make me proud that my government listened to the civil
society, and ISOC-Bulgaria on that subject. <br>
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Best,
Veni Markovski
Internet Society - Bulgaria
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.isoc.bg">http://www.isoc.bg</a> </pre>
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