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<div>Dear Stephane,</div>
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<div>I've scanned the page referenced for the string "represent'
and I come up with this unique occurrence:</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">"As a private-public partnership,
ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the
Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation
of global Internet communities; and to developing policy appropriate
to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based
processes"</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">I don't think that achieving broad
representation of the Internet community _within_ ICANN is the same as
ICANN representing the community.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">George</font></div>
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<div>At 5:47 PM +0200 5/29/08, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:45:43PM
-0400,<br>
George Sadowsky <george.sadowsky@attglobal.net> wrote<br>
a message of 92 lines which said:<br>
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> Beyond that, I don't think any group claims to represent the<br>
> Internet community in any formal sense.<br>
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Several groups *claim* to do so. ISOC, ICANN, the RIRs, often say
they<br>
represent "the community" (a term as broad and as
meaningless as<br>
"civil society").<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>See
<http://www.icann.org/tr/english.html> for just an
example:</blockquote>
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ICANN<br>
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The global Internet community working together to promote the
stability and integrity of the Internet<br>
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