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I will support Milton's arguments, and we should be active in policies
and governance issues. In many countries, though understanding (I would
not say that it is definition) about benefits of the Internet has made it
critical, but my understanding is that due to lack of policies (in major
aspects) and governance (never taken of), Internet couldn't reach the
majority of the community.<br><br>
Best regards,<br>
Hakik<br><br>
At 01:23 AM 10/4/2007, Milton L Mueller wrote:<br><br>
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Avri:<br>
I would answer your question as follows:<br>
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We can either spend our time in Rio debating the _<i>definition</i>_ of
CIR, or we can spend that time debating and discussing _<i>the
policies</i>_ and the _governance arrangements_ applied to CIR. We cannot
do both. There is not time to do both, and if we don’t agree on what CIR
is, we cannot have a productive discussion on policies and governance
arrangements. <br>
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I have no doubt about which type of conversation would be more
interesting and productive. We should be discussing the policies and gov
arrangements. There are many fascinating issues there, and they are
exactly the kind of issues the Forum is supposed to be taking up. The
only reason to shift the discussion to definitions is to divert attention
from a discussion of those policies and institutions currently involved
in CIR.<br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size=2><b>From:</b> Avri Doria
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Internet Governance Caucus<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] For you as an Internet user, what is a
"Critical Internet resource"?<br>
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hi,<br>
<br>
i do not understand why trying to define cIr is not a fine question
itself and needs to defined as another question. unless there
is only one answer and not other answer is allowed. but why would
that be?<br>
<br>
some people think there is a narrow definition for cIr and some people
think there is a broad definition of cIr (i think we have ben here
before). is only the narrow definition valid?<br>
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if so, i do not understand it.<br>
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and if they aren't supposed to be critical to users, then who are they
supposed to be critical too?<br>
<br>
a.<br>
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