<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:03 AM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><div>Without the need to develop policy using many thousands
of people around the world as the policy making community,</div>
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Yes, after such intense consultations, they decide that the global
public is ok with giving .health to a US organisation that promotes
the interests of big pharma against cheap generic drugs, which is a
matter of life and death to so many poor people</div></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>If only facts didn't get in the way of your arguments!<br><br></div><div>the fact is that neither ICANN as an entity nor as a policy community "decided" to give .health to these folks:<br><br><a href="http://www.dothealthgtld.com/aboutus.html">http://www.dothealthgtld.com/aboutus.html</a><br><br></div><div>they applied for it, and received it according to the Applicant Guidebook (which was developed by the policy community, which you refuse to be a part of).<br><br></div><div>Another fact is there is ZERO big pharma support to .health, but really, carry on with your counter-factual-ism, you will always find takers here it seems!<br><br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">, is likely to
auction .book to Amazon as a closed generic, so that Amazon holds
the rights to what can be called as a digital book, and so many
other monstrosities... <br><span class="">
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<div>This spending is a feature, not a bug. It is a very
useful feature for CS folks who rely on the no-strings
attached travel funding to participate in person.<br>
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No-strings!! Thats the joke here... <br><span class=""><font color="#888888">
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"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it
is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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