<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I agree that arguing over the discussion will waste time in Rio. But not everyone accepts the same definition as you do and perhaps they would find that discussing cIr as defined by you would waste their time on future problems as opposed to the problems they face today.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 4 okt 2007, at 00.53, Milton L Mueller wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">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.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>hmm, the only reason for disagreement? do you really believe all the people on this list are trying to divert attention. i don't exclude the possibility that this may motivate some, but i do not think that can be said of everyone who disagrees with you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>a.</DIV><DIV><BR><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>