<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Well, I suppose that's from the "there are people who want the RIRs to pull back from iGov meetings? Great, if they do that, there's far less people around to oppose plans for igov world domination / provide a reality check / whatever" type wishful thinking that sort of mail engenders</div><div><br></div><div>I won't speak for others, but I dare say more than a little of the reaction that triggered this outburt is because of a visceral loathing of the bureaucratic and politics ridden nature of more than one  global igov conference.<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 22-Sep-2014, at 21:39, Milton L Mueller <<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">How would you know? You’ve never been to any of these meetings and don’t track the processes.
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">What has become of ICANN is best represented in the email of resignation (<a href="http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2014/09/msg00049.html">http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2014/09/msg00049.html</a>
 ) from the chair of one of  APNIC's policy group</span>s which is <span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
linked below</span>. What has been said of APNIC is just many more times truer of ICANN.... It is just that ICANN supported and fed groups are simply not willing enough to speak about the emperor's clothes. But the charade cannot go on forever, and once it
 is behind us many involved people will look really bad.<br>
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