<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Too many quotation marks. If you haven't been around IETF circles, Jason has been a valued participant for several years, as have more than one engineer from comcast. And since when did the IETF become "your" institution? Do you by any chance have an RFC or a BCP to your credit, that I missed?<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 21-Mar-2014, at 23:25, "michael gurstein" <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><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="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1F497D">Great to see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast">Comcast</a> supporting the public good err… it’s stakeholder interests… err… “multistakeholderism” and “our” institutions for supporting “enhanced democracy” err “multistakeholderism” blithely accepting such sponsorship… <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1F497D">M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">From: <b>Livingood, Jason</b> <<a href="mailto:Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com">Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com</a>><br>Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:59 PM<br>Subject: Comcast & NBCUniversal Commit to Strategic IETF and ISOC Support<br>To: Dave Farber <<a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a>><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For IP if you wish:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The IETF and ISOC are incredibly important to us at Comcast and NBCUniversal, to the Internet community, and to all Internet users. Today we announced a new new nine-year strategic sponsorship agreement for the IETF and ISOC. This is a clear demonstration of our commitment to support both, in order to ensure a vibrant future for the Internet, and for the key institutions that make it open, consensus-based, and multi-stakeholder.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Full details at <a href="http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/comcast-cable-and-nbcuniversal-commit-to-strategic-ietf-and-isoc-support-partnerships" target="_blank">http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/comcast-cable-and-nbcuniversal-commit-to-strategic-ietf-and-isoc-support-partnerships</a> and <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/institutional/2014/03/nbcuniversal-and-comcast-sign-strategic-sponsorship-agreement-internet" 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