<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:44 AM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On Sunday 21 October 2012 09:50 PM,
Fahd A. Batayneh wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The United States and Japan held the fourth
Director General-level meeting of the U.S.-Japan Policy
Cooperation Dialogue on the Internet Economy in Washington, D.C.<br>
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<a href="http://www.yumanewsnow.com/index.php/news/latest/1450-u-s-japan-policy-cooperation-dialogue-on-the-internet-economy" target="_blank">http://www.yumanewsnow.com/index.php/news/latest/1450-u-s-japan-policy-cooperation-dialogue-on-the-internet-economy</a><br>
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From the agreement text:<br>
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<blockquote> Encouraging other countries to develop principles
consistent with the “United States-Japan Trade Principles for
Information and Communication Technology Services.<br>
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SNIP<br>
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<blockquote>........For these reasons, industry representatives
suggested the following activities:
<p>· U.S-Japan collaboration for establishing an international
framework to support cloud computing.</p>
<p>· Promoting the use of cloud computing in developing countries
and reducing the digital divide.</p>
<p>· Considering a range of policy issues, including: privacy,
cloud computing security, digital content, interoperability, and
portability.</p>
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So rich countries merely go along developing 'global' principles for
the Internet, and to 'encourage' other countries to follow / adopt
them. Industry reps too want them to develop '<i><b>international </b></i>framework
to support cloud computing', to promote use of cloud computing in
developing countries, and to consider a range of policy issues....<br>
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And when proposals like UN CIRP are made </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This article, while certainly out of date given the recent detente twixt ICANN and Minister Pilot discusses the birth of CIRP at some length:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2220692/How-India-helped-bunch-bureaucrats-custodians-Internet.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2220692/How-India-helped-bunch-bureaucrats-custodians-Internet.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>It doesn't sound like there was a whole lot of MSism going on, at least not the kind of MSism I have witnessed.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>