<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I have to say, the whole Cold War analogy post-WCIT is grossly overbaked IMO. I can tell you it is seen as a joke in Geneva amongst delegations (including amongst those accused of being the protagonists/antagonists).<br>
<br><div>-- </div><div>Regards,</div><div> </div><div>Nick Ashton-Hart</div><div><br></div><div><span style>Sent from my one of my handheld thingies, please excuse linguistic mangling.</span></div></div><div><br>On 11 Feb 2013, at 16:22, "Louis Pouzin (well)" <<a href="mailto:pouzin@well.com">pouzin@well.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Philipp,<br><br>Congrats for your very perceptive analysis. The fragmentation trend is indeed on the ground already. Do you have any comments on the creeping cyberwar ?<br><br>Best, Louis<br>
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Philipp Mirtl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Philipp.Mirtl@oiip.ac.at" target="_blank">Philipp.Mirtl@oiip.ac.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="DE-AT"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB">Dear list members,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB">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" target="_blank">http://www.cnas.org/theinternetyalta</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB">The abstract reads as follows:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB">“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.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Philipp Mirtl<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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