<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:27 AM, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;">Many are uneasy with this but if ICANN wishes to occupy that role (and given their privileged financial position as gatekeeper/rent extractor they are in a position to present themselves for this) then they have an interest in/responsibility for supporting the weakest link in that multi-stakeholder Internet ecology i.e. Civil Society.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>I can endorse the second lat of the sentence, and we have communicated this to Fadi and senior staff in some detail. They say they get it.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></body></html>