<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Dear
Nick,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Being
involved with the Brazilian preparation for WCIT-12, I can express my feelings that
this US memorandum is much more realistic about what we expect to happen in
Dubai than most posts I have been reading here.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Abraços,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Sérgio</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">"<span style="background:white">US memo: ITU's Dubai meeting
not likely to affect Internet Governance"</span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;background-repeat:initial initial;background-image:initial">by Milton Mueller</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2012/1/30/4988735.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2012/1/30/4988735.html</span></a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;background-repeat:initial initial;background-image:initial">“A memo from the US government dated January 23, 2012, makes it clear
that the ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) to
be held in Dubai this December poses little threat of a "takeover" of
the Internet by intergovernmental institutions.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">(...)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;background-repeat:initial initial;background-image:initial">According to the US memo, that strategy was
completely successful. "<u>The existing ITRs have been accepted as the
framework for negotiations," the memo says. "There are no pending
proposals to invest the ITU with ICANN-like Internet governance authority.</u>"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">(...)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;background-repeat:initial initial;background-image:initial">But why, we must ask, are some journalists, consultants, and even U.S.
government officials still going around saying that WCIT-12 is set to become
some kind of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71625.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00248f;background:white">battle royale over the future of
Internet governance</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;background-repeat:initial initial;background-image:initial">? Why are people
like </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/01/12/145125429/who-should-control-the-internet-some-say-the-u-n" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00248f;background:white">David Gross</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#484848;background:white"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;background-repeat:initial initial;background-image:initial">and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71625.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00248f;background:white">Phil Wieser,</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#484848;background:white"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;background-repeat:initial initial;background-image:initial">advisors or ambassadors to the US government, quoted in these articles
as if they are deeply concerned about the Internet sliding into some
Russo-Chinese statist abyss?<b><u> If, as the memo says, the US wishes to
expand the coalition of actors paying attention to WCIT-12, does it think that
scaring people with false or inflated threats is an appropriate way to do so?</u></b> Why
not make the case for further liberalization of international markets honestly,
on the merits?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">”</span></p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">--------=====--------</span></p><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">Em 10 de março de 2012 18:15, Nick Ashton-Hart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nashton@consensus.pro" target="_blank">nashton@consensus.pro</a>></span> escreveu:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Good evening list members<div><br></div><div>I thought I would send along details of two posts that I hope will be of interest to you all:</div>
<div><br></div><div>First, Matthias Langenegger of CCIA has a blog post of his experience at the recent HRC panel discussion of human rights on the Internet in Geneva (and the attempts by Russia, China, and friends to disrupt the meeting etc.) The blog post is here: <a href="http://www.ccianet.org/index.asp?bid=89&BlogEntryID=224&FormID=300&catid=0" target="_blank">http://www.ccianet.org/index.asp?bid=89&BlogEntryID=224&FormID=300&catid=0</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Also by CCIA, the CEO has a Huffington Post OpEd on the threats to the open Internet posed by these countries' agendas being pushed at the ITU: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-j-black/uns-itu-could-become-next_b_1332768.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-j-black/uns-itu-could-become-next_b_1332768.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Have a good weekend :)</div><div><br></div><div>All the best, Nick</div><div><br></div></div><br>____________________________________________________________<br>
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