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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div><br></div><div><br></div>+ 1 @ Nick.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: nashton@consensus.pro<br>Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 12:37:01 +0545<br>CC: bestbits@lists.bestbits.net<br>To: governance@lists.igcaucus.org; gurstein@gmail.com<br>Subject: Re: [bestbits] [governance] Blogpost: Alternative "Best Practices" for the A4AI (to be renamed Alliance for an Accessible Internet)<br><br>Dear Michael,<div><br></div><div>May I suggest that in the first instance, before proposing to rewrite A4Ai’s entire mission and purpose, you and those interested could have a conversation with them about your concerns?</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect that will get a better reception from presenting them with a redraft completely out of the blue, without having any dialogue.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, Nick</div><div>
<br><div><blockquote><div>On 26 Mar 2016, at 23:49, Michael Gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><div><div class="ecxWordSection1" style="font-family:OpenSans;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">My original<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/a4ai-who-could-oppose-a-more-affordable-internet-the-alliance-for-an-affordable-internet-a4ai-and-the-neo-liberal-stealth-campaign-to-control-the-internet-throughout-the-developing-world-and-make/" style="color:rgb(149, 79, 114);text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;">blogpost</span></a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>examining the<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://a4ai.org/best-practices/" style="color:rgb(149, 79, 114);text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;">“Policy and Regulatory Best Practices” of the Alliance for an Affordable Internet (A4AI’s)<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span></a>has generated some considerable discussion including on the InternetPolicy elist sponsored by the<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/" style="color:rgb(149, 79, 114);text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;">Internet Society</span></a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>(ISOC). In the course of that discussion a challenge was put forward by Bill Smith, a tech industry veteran, Board Member of ISOC and the “tech evangelist” for PayPal as follows (taken from a post to the InternetPolicy elist (Fri 2016-03-25 9:31 AM)</span></div><div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">What is lacking in the discussion against A4AI, is a well-articulated alternative. Some bits and pieces may appear but they suffer from the same deficiencies attributed to A4AI’s principles, best practices, and policy positions – they are offered as fact with no substantiation.</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">A4AI has what I consider a set of easily understandable principles, best practices, and policy positions. I suspect that when applied in practice, they will be effective in many circumstances. They may not be appropriate in all. (Think globally act locally.)</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">What I haven’t seen are a similar set of principles, best practices, and policy positions from the non-neoliberal corner. Perhaps such a set could be presented to this list for consideration and debate.</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">This below is my response to this challenge (I have added additional comments by Brandt Dainow also a contributor to the InternetPolicy elist):</span></div><div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/alternative-best-practices-for-the-a4ai-to-be-renamed-alliance-for-an-accessible-internet/" style="color:rgb(149, 79, 114);text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank">https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/alternative-best-practices-for-the-a4ai-to-be-renamed-alliance-for-an-accessible-internet/</a></div><div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, 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