<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>McTim makes an excellent point. A cross over development approach would bring more into the fold while giving the overseers less of a denial of inclusion argument.</DIV>
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<DIV>There are generally two hisorical approaches to the advocacy of expansion of Human Rights. </DIV>
<DIV>One is an outside looking in demanding approach, and the other an insider job with multiple objectives being framed by the promoters. I think that we have seen that the exclusive concentration on Human Rights by any organization is idealistic and usually leads to antisocial fanaticism. </DIV>
<DIV>Where as, when the Human Rights are enveloped into a pre-or - concurrently existing structure for the promotion of more tangible advancement it gains credibility and strength.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 2/1/10, michael gurstein <I><gurstein@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: michael gurstein <gurstein@gmail.com><BR>Subject: RE: [governance] Re: Separate statement on themes for Vilnius<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org, "'McTim'" <dogwallah@gmail.com>, "'Ian Peter'" <ian.peter@ianpeter.com><BR>Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 9:52 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>I'm not sure that I completely understand the possible implications of this<BR>but on the face of it I would support this approach.<BR><BR>MBG<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: McTim [mailto:<A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dogwallah@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</A>] <BR>Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:18 PM<BR>To: <A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=governance@lists.cpsr.org" ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A>; Ian Peter<BR>Subject: Re: [governance] Re: Separate statement on themes for Vilnius<BR><BR><BR>On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Ian Peter <<A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ian.peter@ianpeter.com" ymailto="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> And yes we should continue to support the human rights and development <BR>> agendas. We need
to find a way to overcome the block on rights <BR>> discussions which was evident last year - if anyone has suggestions on <BR>> how we might achieve this I would be interested.<BR><BR>Here is a suggestion. Why don't we pitch instead of a "Right to Internet<BR>Development", which would be the right to develop Internet policy and<BR>standards in a bottom up, open, documented and transparent fashion,<BR>independent from commercial and governmental interests.<BR><BR>This combines Rights and a Development Agenda together in once concept.<BR><BR>I would think the technical community would get behind this!<BR><BR>-- <BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>McTim<BR>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route<BR>indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<BR>____________________________________________________________<BR>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR> <A
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