<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>There's more. Becoming a sector member gives google some obligations that can be imposed on it by ITU. I can see why they might prefer to criticise ITU from the outside, in preference to becoming a sector member and paying the membership fee, which you will agree is relatively pocket change to google.<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 25-Nov-2012, at 18:17, McTim <<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Fahd A. Batayneh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@gmail.com" target="_blank">fahd.batayneh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Pure government-like press releases, but there is a strong message between the lines (such as Google not being a member and their 125 or so attendances).</p></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Just to be clear, it's the US delegation which has 125 members, it's not Google sending 125 people.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The message between the lines about Google NOT being an ITU member is that even if they were a ITU member, they could not vote as a Member State. In other words, the ITU would like Google to pay it ~50,000 per year, but not give them a real say in the proceedings.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- </div></div>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>
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