<html><head><base href="x-msg://52/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>On Apr 7, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Lee W McKnight wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div ocsi="0" fpstyle="1" style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; ">My 2 cents is the general principles/objectives being pushed by the ITU's Broadband Commission are not bad, but the fact of the matter is it more a classic high-level talkathon opportunity than anything else. Submitting docs to them is likely not worth the time it would as Michael suggests. And for CS, certainly not worth the bother of trying to shape/steer at this late date when the dye is cast. </div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Lee - </div><div><br></div><div>At this late date, you're probably correct. It's unfortunate that we'll have</div><div>the lost the opportunity to actually assess the effectiveness of Internet</div><div>governance participation mechanisms that have been afforded to those </div><div>not on the Commission; it's the type of academic study that we could have </div><div>used in the future to point out that not all multi-stakeholder engagement </div><div>processes are equal, and (ala Michael Gurstein) that "random, non-directed, </div><div>open ended, structureless, formless" calls for input are not sufficient.</div><div><br></div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: My views alone. Professional Internet curmudgeon on a </div><div> high-bandwidth link; do not try this at home.</div><div> </div></div></body></html>