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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=024173617-30052009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Nikola:</FONT></SPAN></DIV><SPAN
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color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=024173617-30052009>It is good to know that
there is an independent group of Bulgarian Internet users. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left>ISOC has a rather checkered history when it comes to
defending rights of individuals on the Internet. While there are many strong
supporters of Internet freedom in its ranks, as well as dedicated technical
veterans of the highest caliber, its international organizational staff and
business connections often lead it in strange directions. And as they become
more interconnected with authoritative Internet governance
institutions, ISOC often pursues agendas that are....puzzling, to put it
mildly. It is useful to recall in this context ISOC's role in promoting the
discredited gTLD-MoU, which would have put WIPO and the ITU in a key governance
role, and would have allowed WIPO and INTA to have almost untrammeled authority
over resolving domain name trademark disputes. ICANN's UDRP, with all its flaws,
was quite liberal compared to what ISOC, WIPO, INTA and ITU cooked up for us a
dozen years ago. </FONT></SPAN></DIV><!-- Converted from text/plain format -->
<P><FONT size=2>Milton Mueller<BR>Professor, Syracuse University School of
Information Studies<BR>XS4All Professor, Delft University of
Technology<BR>------------------------------<BR>Internet Governance
Project:<BR><A
href="http://internetgovernance.org/">http://internetgovernance.org</A><BR></FONT></P>
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