<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://368/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:54 PM, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Okay but can anyone point to an authoritative definition/description of what exactly is meant by "the successful multistakeholder model that governs the Internet" i.e. what exactly was the US Congress voting unanimously to "preserve and advance".</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Interestingly enough, the term "multistakeholder model" is not further defined;</div><div>this implies that it is should be obvious from context, and if one reads the full</div><div>bill, that might actually be the case depending on your own perspective of the</div><div>current Internet Governance structures. (An an aside, I remember back to a</div><div>multi-hour session one day with lawmakers who were attempting to define the</div><div>term "Internet", so that it could be used in bill being drafted. Happily, we are</div><div>past the point of where the term Internet needs definition, but I'll admit to some</div><div>surprise that "multistakeholder model" is now receiving the same benefit of the</div><div>doubt.)</div><div><br></div><div>FYI,</div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimers: My views alone (where "My" is defined as those associated with</div><div> John Curran...)</div></body></html>