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<p>It takes doing and talking rather than just talking, as mctim says<br>
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--srs (htc one x)<br>
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<p>On 1 March 2013 8:40:39 PM McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:</p>
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Excellent speech overall, I have just one nit to pick:<div><br><br><div
class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:02 AM, parminder <span
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net"
target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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All this has happened in the same decade that the Internet ought
to have been been equalising social and economic opportunity. We
need to sit back and reflect,what went wrong?Why did the
Internet, and the Information Society phenomenon not do what it
was supposed to
do?</font></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Internet did
exactly what it was supposed to do, pass packets from one endpoint to
another. Asking it to do more threatens that role.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If people want to equalise social and economic
opportunity VIA the Internet, well more power to them, but let's
not conflate the two.</div><div><br></div><div>While all y'all were
talking in Paris about Internet Governance, hundreds of folks actually
did the hard work of Internet coordination, collaboration and
communication for the past 10 days in Singapore @APRICOT/APNIC.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You can read a very good draft history of those
bodies here:</div><div><br></div><div><a
href="http://www.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/58903/APNIC-History-1992-1995-d01-20130217.pdf">http://www.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/58903/APNIC-History-1992-1995-d01-20130217.pdf</a></div>
<div><br></div></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
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