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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-AT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Dear list members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>For those who are interested, I forward you the link to a recently published <b>commentary on WCIT-12</b>: <a href="http://www.cnas.org/theinternetyalta">http://www.cnas.org/theinternetyalta</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>The abstract reads as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>“The December 2012 meeting of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) may be the digital equivalent of the February 1945 meeting of the Allied powers in Yalta: the beginning of a long Internet Cold War between authoritarian and liberal-democratic countries. The battles over Internet governance that surfaced at WCIT are not just about competing visions of the Internet, with one side favoring openness and the other security. They are also about two different visions of political power – one in which that power is increasingly distributed and includes non-state actors, and one in which state power is dominant. At the Yalta Conference, Western democracies made two fundamental mistakes: first, they allowed naive statements of wishful thinking to supplant actual realities on the ground. Second, they overlooked the risk inherent in permitting ambiguous definitions. Both of these mistakes may have been repeated at WCIT.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Philipp Mirtl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Fellow / Adviser<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik (oiip)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Austrian Institute for International Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Berggasse 7<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>A-1090 WIEN/VIENNA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Tel: +43-(0)1-581 11 06-29<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Fax: +43-(1)1-581 11 06-10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:philipp.mirtl@oiip.ac.at"><span style='color:blue'>philipp.mirtl@oiip.ac.at</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Website: <a href="http://www.oiip.ac.at/"><span style='color:blue'>www.oiip.ac.at</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>