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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Thanks Ralf (and Jeremy). I am sure we can
improve on our strategy to get the best outcomes, and will invite other comments
on this...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>one<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> simple<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> meta-question:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> -> Who is supposed to answer these
questions?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Yes, that is THE question. And I am
deliberately engaging on that question. After all who or what is the IGF? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>We often are critical about it only being a ‘talk
shop’ but then we often get caught in promoting that conception of the
IGF. I think here there is a strategic political choice or trade-off to be
made, and we need to make it now…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>One is the nature and quality/quantity of participation,
openness, inclusiveness MSP-ness etc etc… and on the other hand is
relevance, effectiveness, meaningfulness, outcome-orientation and such. All
political institutions make that trade-off. We have democratic governments
which function in a certain manner, and we aren’t too happy about it, but
we know it is better than not having a government at all or having a despotic government.
And at the same time we keep engaging with the institutions of governance to
make them more inclusive, transparent etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Somewhat similar choice has to be made about
the IGF. We have to sacrifice some participation, inclusiveness, openness etc
to a ‘system’ which have some amount of ‘representative-ness’
– whereby it is able to act as an effective ‘structure’ which
can have a body and agency, and can produce some outcomes. And we can keep engaging
with it to improve the manner of its inclusive, transparency and openness. I
know IGF isnt supposed to be a ‘decision making’ structure, but
that doesn’t take a non-talk-shop agency aspect completely away from it,
as I have argued with reference to its WSIS mandate. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> it is supposed to be a multistakeholder
forum, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>we <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";font-weight:bold'>"are"
the<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";font-weight:bold'>> IGF </span></font></b><font
size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>as
much as<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> the governments and the other
stakeholders are it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>You know that it is only a part-myth, we
would live to believe in and invest in… For example, I did not decide the
format of the IGF, and am completely of a mind to have it very differently given
a choice…. But, I accept that there is a ‘system’ or ‘structure’
which decided it, and which - though it doesn’t work exactly as I would want
it to – I am fine ‘ceding’ some power to for the sake of some
effectiveness and outcomes. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>And if we really were the IGF – Id like
to know how can I arrange an official interaction with the ICANN (72 c of the agenda)
which bears the stamp of the UN-IGF and where I can ask some questions to it,
and to which it is obliged to engage with (since ICANN seems to have some
internal obligations to international law and organizations, and IGF is an official
UN body). Obviously, only a clearly demarcated system or structure can do this,
and so is also true of other things that I have listed in the IGF poser…..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>So, my view is that we should invest in
developing some ‘structure’ for the IGF - (so that everyone knows ->
Who is supposed to answer these questions?) and then provisionally accept the
shortcomings the system, knowing that it is still a big advance over purely governmental
systems, and that we have some leverage inside the system, and keep engaging
with the system to make is more inclusive and participatory. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>I remember that when MAG was formed, there
was a debate on this list – and many opined that MAG should not decide
this and this, and that IGF SHOULD DECIDE THESE THINGS. I at that time and
argued for accepting some ‘structurality’ and representative-ness of
the IGF as the only plausible way, and to engage with it. (Though I myself, as
most of us, wasn’t too happy with the MAG). Now that Nitin Desai has made
clear that ‘IGF has no members’ and therefore it cannot decide
anything (his words) id now like to know what those who were against MAG deciding
IGF agenda etc have to say to this….<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>So lets be practical and pragmatic… because
it appear no one else is bothered…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'> > Pragmatically speaking, I would
change the questions into<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> statements. This<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> will help facilitating a
quick&dirty debate among ourselves<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> on how we want<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> to have the IGF develop itself. And it
will give us some<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> advantage to most<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> of the other stakeholder groups who
expect a conference and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> nothing else.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Though I am open to change in our strategy, I
had posed it as questions precisely to provoke a quick and dirty debate. And also
to call for answer-ability and accountability from those who expect it only
as a conference (and therefore cited the WSIS mandate extensively)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> If we leave it in the form of
questions, we should at least<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> be prepared to<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> answer them in the debate.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>That we certainly should be ready to do..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>> Maybe something to discuss at the IGC
meeting?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>If we are really to put a joint position at the
IGF in this regard, it is better to have a good exchange of views on the list, because
time is short. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Parminder <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> -----Original Message-----</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> From: Ralf Bendrath [mailto:bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de]</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:02 AM</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> To: governance@lists.cpsr.org</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Subject: Re: [governance] IGC's questions to the IGF</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Parminder wrote:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> > *_Some Questions from the Internet Governance Civil Society</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Caucus to</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> > the Internet Governance Forum _*</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Thanks a lot, this really helps moving forward.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> I don't want to comment on the details the possible fine-</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> tuning, but am</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> more concerned with the larger picture. It boils down to one</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> simple</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> meta-question:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> -> Who is supposed to answer these questions?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> A normal reflex would be to look at Markus Kummer, Nitin</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Desai, or Kofi</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Annan, as they got the task assigned from the WSIS. But they</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> would just</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> hand it over to the governments, as the decision came from</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> there. You can</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> imagine what their answer would be...</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Therefore I think we should answer them ourselves and just</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> act *as if*</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> they had been answered in the way we prefer.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> One example. A couple of times the list of questions says</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> "what is IGF’s</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> plan" or something in this direction, and you hit it directly</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> in question</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> 2 when you address the "agency" issue. This is the wrong
way,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> as it sounds</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> like we delegate the answer to someone else, whoever this may</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> be. But if</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> it is supposed to be a multistakeholder forum, we "are" the</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> IGF as much as</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> the governments and the other stakeholders are it. So, let's</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> try to answer</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> these things for ourselves - and convincingly enough or at</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> least with some</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> powerful support to make others even follow us.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> Of course, the tough part is then to come up with smart</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> answers that we</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> all think are a) feasable and b) legitimate. But this is our</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> job. We very</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> much missed out on developing a grand vision for the IGF</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> beforehand that</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> would live up to the expectations of the <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
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10.0pt'>> Maybe something to discuss at the IGC meeting?</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> Pragmatically speaking, I would change the questions into</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> statements. This</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> will help facilitating a quick&dirty debate among ourselves</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> on how we want</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> to have the IGF develop itself. And it will give us some</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> advantage to most</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> of the other stakeholder groups who expect a conference and</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> nothing else.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> If we leave it in the form of questions, we should at least</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> be prepared to</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> answer them in the debate.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> </span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>> Best, Ralf</span></font></p>
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