<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>This vintage of grape seems to be unusually sour, I must say.<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 09-Jan-2014, at 10:45, "michael gurstein" <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We have a </span><u style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">self-selected</u><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> group, </span><u style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">purportedly</u><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> representing "Civil Society" (the Best bits Coordinating Committee); being </span><u style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">self-appointed</u><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> to an, in turn, </span><u style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">self-selected</u><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> group which </span><u style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">purports</u><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> to also represent Civil Society but in some vaguer larger sense (the Civil Society Coordinating Committee-CS:CC); and then further </span><u style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">self-selecting</u><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> themselves or their designates to represent "civil society" on the Coordinating Group of further </span><u style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">vague and extremely shadowy and so far with no provenance or transparency </u><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">-- the Inet group. </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">And then to pile on top of this we have authorities in Brazil (again extremely vague as to who exactly is involved) <u>designating this shadowy Inet group to be the sole interface</u> for all of the non-governmental sectors to be involved in what has been purported to be a Summit to discuss global Internet Policies and Principles... <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">And further we have this CS: CC going through an internal process among its self-appointed poobahs of horse-trading and other processes <u>without apparent legitimacy or accountability and transparency (only by happy accident)</u> to identify nominees for some elements of this self-same "Summit/err... meeting...<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">(I may have missed an illegitimacy or unaccountability there somewhere but you get my drift...<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><br></p></div></blockquote></body></html>