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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