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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Fouad:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Your answer to David’s question reveals a lot of confusion, in my opinion.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Markets respond to supply and demand. It is a simple and predictable feature of markets that businesses (whether in the US or anywhere else) will try to sell their products
to people who want to use them and have the money to pay for them. So we have a shared responsibility: for DPI and related surveillance and content-filtering equipment, the
<b>demand</b> is created by authoritarian governments who want to control the Internet in their country, while the
<b>supply</b> comes from profit-motivated businesses who can meet that demand. Many of these suppliers, by the way, are NOT from the U.S.; many are from Europe, and some are from China or elsewhere.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Don’t blame the US advocates of FoE for that.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">As for the “dual FoE internet policy,” well, it’s time to grow up and look at states, including the US state, as self-interested actors and stop believing in the fairy
tale that they magically embody the public interest or the people’s will. It’s also time for you to recognize that nearly all states have contradictory political pressures on them; just as the Pakistani govt doesn’t want to alienate the hardcore islamists
while continuing to receive $$$ from the US, the US govt (specifically, the State Dept) wants to promote internet freedom while some Congressional pressures want us to withhold nearly all technology from “enemies” or repressive states, and some business-centric
agencies and congresspeople want us to expand our market share in foreign countries’ technology purchases by selling them more equipment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Fouad Bajwa<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org; Suresh Ramasubramanian<br>
<b>Cc:</b> David Conrad<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Reasons for 'Internet Traffic Intelligence and Surveillance" products (was Re: [governance] speaker at the opening ceremony?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let me try to answer the confusion quickly while I am multitasking between packing and documentation:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'd rather remain implicit. I am sure many of my colleagues from developing countries can list a long list of issues that their countries are concerned about and may be sharing during the WCIT meet and that this list has been discussing
in numerous ITR related threads etc. at the end of the day it is more or less around US centric IRM and the challenges of censorship and content filtering. Its not just about iran, russia and china, there are more than a hundred other countries out of which
a majority are developing regions and imposing various forms of censorship.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My confusion stands around the dual FoE internet policy of these countries that requires some responsibility. Okay, its not only boeing/narus, cisco or sandvine selling censorship but we have huwae in the league of traffic intelligence
and DPI as well. Alright, it may be business as usual but this is giving some countries to show and tell the amazing censorship they have implemented. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Yes there are jurisdiction issues at play here but then some countries believe in resorting to censorship, blocking and filtering.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank">suresh@hserus.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Or is it fouads argument that sandvine gear was bought specifically to censor any discussion of the cir process? I don't quite understand the logic here either<br>
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----- Reply message -----<br>
From: "David Conrad" <<a href="mailto:drc@virtualized.org" target="_blank">drc@virtualized.org</a>><br>
To: <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>><br>
Subject: Reasons for 'Internet Traffic Intelligence and Surveillance" products (was Re: [governance] speaker at the opening ceremony?)<br>
Date: Tue, Oct 30, 2012 9:01 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Fouad,<br>
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On Oct 30, 2012, at 6:20 AM, Fouad Bajwa <<a href="mailto:fouadbajwa@gmail.com" target="_blank">fouadbajwa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The fact remains that as US-Centric Internet Resource Management remains, countries have been sold various Internet Traffic Intelligence and Surveillance systems by US and Canadian companies. An evident example is the use of Sandvine traffic intelligence
by PTCL Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited. PTCL is the largest ICT/Telecom provider in the country and manages the Internet trunks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I'm curious: how does "US-Centric Internet Resource Management" cause PTCL (et al) to purchase products like Sandvine's?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Thanks,<br>
-drc<br>
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