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<div>On Oct 9, 2013, at 4:40 PM, JFC Morfin <<a href="mailto:jefsey@jefsey.com">jefsey@jefsey.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">At 16:58 09/10/2013, John Curran wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="x-msg://4409/">> The Montevideo statement is not by the technical community but an attempt at radical monopoly by the statUS-quo technical bodies without consensus of their participants and members.
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I can only speak for ARIN, but our member-elected Board approved the statement, as
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No doubt about it. However, that does not mean that your approving membership is to be identified with a so-called "technical community".<br>
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<div>I did not identify them as the "technical community", but was only correcting your </div>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="x-msg://4409/">JFC - I'd be happy to discuss your concerns, but truly can't discern what exactly they are
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</b>I have no concerns. <br>
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I thought you were concerned about the authenticity of the call for accelerating the</div>
<div>globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, and I was only responding to such - </div>
<div>my error. In any case, we are already seeing evidence of such acceleration, which </div>
<div>in and of itself makes the point.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>/John</div>
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