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<div>On Oct 8, 2013, at 5:30 AM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 08 October 2013 04:49 PM, John Curran wrote:<br>
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<div>On Oct 7, 2013, at 11:43 PM, parminder <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>You would not consider the "accelerating the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, </div>
<div>towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate </div>
<div>on an equal footing" to be truly substantial?</div>
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I may, if I am given some concrete indication what does that 'environment' looks like.
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<div>The clear, uniform call by these organizations for globalization of ICANN and IANA </div>
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<div>a would call a truly substantial development. Regarding that "environment", I was </div>
<div>hoping you'd tell me... what would you like to look like? </div>
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<div>For example, there is an "IANA Function Contract"... how would one globalize the </div>
<div>'IANA oversight' function that is nominally provided today by the USG/NTIA?</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">The plain fact is that in a socio political space no change takes place if we wait for every every entity to agree completely. So we can wait eternally for the full consensus to emerge and the status quo can meanwhile be.
Public interest actors can still agree - as they do often in terms of global treaties etc - because of some genuine give and take involved, and at other times a leap of collective faith in global public interest....But when some private interest actors - who
by definition look at narrow, relatively short term interest - are also prominently lined up as essential parties to the sought for consensus, that is a pretty impossible task. A good recipe however to keep the status quo going. </div>
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There's no reason for the organizations involved to issue a statement if they desired</div>
<div>maintenance of the status quo, and furthermore would definitely not call for globalization</div>
<div>of the ICANN and IANA functions, since that aspect alone is likely to precipitate some</div>
<div>significant change...</div>
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<div>FYI,</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
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