<div>Dear Kieren, and greetings All:</div>
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<div>The *Respectful Interfaces* Programme of the Communications Coordination Committee for the U.N. endorses the multi-stakeholder approach online and off. Thank you for your good work, </div>
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<div>:) Best wishes, LDMF.</div>
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<div>P.S., Hi Jeremy, your <em>sidebars</em> at IGF-I Athens were so helpful too.<br><br>[post read in pertinent part:]</div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kieren McCarthy</b> <<a href="mailto:kierenmccarthy@gmail.com">kierenmccarthy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I think it may be worth reiterating the basic history and idea behind this<br>letter.<br><br>Jeremy Malcolm and myself (Kieren McCarthy) collaborated in the weeks
<br>leading up to the IGF on a website that would allow some degree of online<br>participation into the process for the simple reason that a website didn't<br>exist and we felt this was a very large hole in what was supposed to be an
<br>Internet Governance Forum...</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">As such I would encourage anyone that believes that all stakeholders should<br>work together on the online side of the IGF (to my mind this is obvious) to
<br>put their name to the letter. If the UN/IGF Secretariat then thinks this is<br>worthwhile pursuing, we will sort out the issues of structure later.</blockquote>
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<div>[ldmfnote: please see original post].</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Kieren<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Kieren McCarthy
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