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<p>Hi Pranesh, all<br>
</p>
<p>This letter was an effort by a small number of US and intl civil
society groups to address some unfortunate characterizations and
spin related to human rights and free expression issues associated
with the IANA Transition that have arisen over the past month in
the media and on Capitol Hill.</p>
<p>The letter was intended to be available for the Senate hearing
yesterday and to be entered in the record. It addresses a number
of concerns that were raised in the hearing. The statement was
only finalized Monday night. <br>
</p>
<p>I understand that you have concerns about the power dynamics at
play in the IANA transition but that is not the purpose of this
letter. </p>
<p>It is up on the BestBits site for sign on. For those who agree
with the contents of the letter I encourage you to sign up.<br>
</p>
<p>Thanks!<br>
</p>
<p>Matthew<br>
</p>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/25/2016 9:11 AM, Pranesh Prakash
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:57455E47.7030408@cis-india.org" type="cite">Dear
all,
<br>
I recently came across this:
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.net/iana-transition/">http://bestbits.net/iana-transition/</a>
<br>
<br>
However, I never saw its contents being discussed on this list.
Did I somehow fail to receive those messages?
<br>
<br>
I am quite concerned about the way the letter takes an uncritical
global North approach to the IANA transition, and refuses to
contend with the power dynamics at play.
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">The undersigned civil society and public
interest groups believe that the IANA transition is a positive
development for the Domain Name System and for the Internet at
large, and that the process to develop the transition proposal
has been a successful expression of multistakeholder approaches
to Internet decision-making.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I have pointed out in the past that this IANA transition process
fails the requirements of the NetMundial Statement, and was
primarily led by corporate interests in the US, and men:
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/global-multistakeholder-community-neither-global-nor-multistakeholder">http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/global-multistakeholder-community-neither-global-nor-multistakeholder</a>
<br>
<br>
Regards,
<br>
Pranesh
<br>
<br>
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