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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Monday 24 November 2014 10:06 AM,
      Lee W McKnight wrote:<br>
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        <div>I am MORE in favor IGC engaging with NMI because:</div>
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            <div>the rationale and explanations from Carlos Afonso and
              cgi.br colleagues are clear and sensible; those who helped
              pull off NetMundial have earned IGC’s support
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            <div>The views of the I-orgs, who were against IGF before
              they were for it  (cough cough), are also clear but less
              convincing, seeing as those orgs do not claim to be the
              appropriate venues themselves to address the range of
              issues likely to be (in my opinion) brought to NMI, and
              offer no alternative. Should NMI prove to be of some
              merit, no doubt the I orgs will engage at a later date.</div>
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            <div>Likewise, the more JNC has explained its views, the
              less weight they hold, seeing as they appear focused on a
              specifically anti-US big (internet) business animus ,
              completely neglecting to note the new giants on the block
              such as Alibaba's record-setting IPO which has resulted in
              a firm that has a market cap far exceeding the Amazon
              boogeyman, as well as Walmart's.  (not that there is
              anything wrong with Alibaba, but obsessively picking on
              the little guy/small(er) business - Amazon ; ) - seems to
              be misplaced and unhelpful to multistakeholder dialog and
              governance.</div>
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    JNC confronts illegal concentration and use of power, wherever, and
    done by whosoever. In the current 'global Internet' scenario, it is
    the US political establishment and US based mega Internet companies
    that have shown the greatest proclivity towards such concentration
    and misuse of digital power. This perception is shared by an
    overwhelming number of people the world over. If this is not your
    perception, then well, I think you are simply wrong, and I cannot do
    much about it. As and when Alibaba poses a problem to the global
    public interest we will speak up against it, be assured of that. <br>
    <br>
    It is fine if sitting in the US, you see a perfectly good world,
    with no bad guys that need to be confronted. However, marginalised
    groups in marginalised areas, who bear the brunt of holding the
    wrong end of the stick of global structural power, are unable to be
    so sanguine and try their best to oppose wrongful/ illegitimate
    structural power, and wherever possible wrest some empowerment for
    themselves.  That is what JNC's advocacy and work is about. <br>
    <br>
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            <div> (OK to be fair JNC is in good company picking on
              Amazon, since like JNC, Wall Street is also giving Amazon
              a hard time of late, as are European publishers Hachette
              and Springer who are also managing to push back against
              Amazon themselves. Anyway, this anti-Amazon obsession of
              some is but a sideshow/distraction to consideration of
              broader Internet governance issues and should therefore
              carry limited  weight in IGC's own considerations,
              although of course everyone is free to voice whatever
              views they wish, whether of Amazon or something more
              relevant to the issues at hand.
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            <div>Last but not least, the historical triumph of - cgi.br
              and ICANN coopting WEF -</div>
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    Please do not twist history to create self serving triumphs... It is
    fairly well know, including to you, that it is ICANN and the WEF who
    first cooked up the NMI broth, and then when it did not work our in
    the first round in August - September, and they faced a lot of
    opposition, they thought of this brilliant idea of coopting CGi-Br .
    And so in the version 2 of NMI we see CGI.Br who wasnt there in ver
    1. So, you got it backwards on who coopted whom... And you would
    know more as the initiative proceeds, and can see who would call the
    shots.<br>
    <br>
    Further, keeping aside who among the the currently listed three
    partners coopted whom among themselves, it is certainly clear that
    civil society is being coopted. <br>
    <br>
    parminder <br>
    <br>
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            <div> to facilitate industry engagement in broader IG policy
              issues discussions and implementations should be
              recognized for what it is, and not mistaken for a sign of
              the failure but rather is a mark of success/the
              mainstreaming of Internet governance, as matters of truly
              global Import and requiring truly global solutions.  </div>
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              <b>Sent:</b> ‎Sunday‎, ‎November‎ ‎23‎, ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎42‎
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                <div>It is Monday 3:40 AM GMT.<br>
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                I am STILL  in favour of IGC engaging with NMI.<br>
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            Nnenna<br>
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            <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:04 PM,
              Sivasubramanian M <span dir="ltr">
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              wrote:<br>
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                    Dear David Cake,</div>
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                    <div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Fri, Nov 21, 2014
                        at 10:47 AM, David Cake <span dir="ltr">
                          <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="mailto:dave@difference.com.au"
                            target="_parent">dave@difference.com.au</a>></span>
                        wrote:<br>
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                          <div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;">Siva,
                            there is a big difference between including
                            WEF in the process, and having them run the
                            process by their own rules. 
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                            <div>I *welcome* the involvement of WEF in
                              open, participatory, multi-stakeholder
                              spaces - they are in a good position to
                              eloquently express some of the positions
                              of the commercial sector. Often,
                              commercial representatives within IG
                              processes often represent small sectors of
                              the commercial world with very strong
                              biases towards particular issues (such as
                              telcos and copyright cartels), WEF might
                              be able to provide a broader commercial
                              perspective, and maybe commercial
                              representation in IG spaces might not be
                              quite so dominated by a small cabal. And
                              note, welcoming the involvement of such
                              organisations is not the same as having
                              sympathy for their policy positions and
                              actions, simply I'd rather debate those
                              positions in an open, transparent,
                              multi-stakeholder fora, rather than have
                              to battle covert lobbying and decision
                              making in closed or opaque fora in which
                              CS has no voice. </div>
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                            <div>But I *oppose* considering WEF
                              processes as equivalent to open
                              multi-stakeholder ones in legitimacy. WEFs
                              own processes are not open, they are
                              strictly gatekeepered. And they are
                              commercial led processes, with commercial
                              goals. WEF is, of course, welcome to keep
                              doing those things, but such processes
                              should not be considered legitimate means
                              of producing multi-stakeholder
                              transnational consensus. And this NMI
                              process certainly started with assumptions
                              that reflect the problems with WEF
                              processes, such as choosing the CS sector
                              representatives that the WEF wanted. </div>
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                          1. NETmundial is not in any way 'folded into'
                          the WEF, so it does not become part of WEF. 
                          WEF is to be seen as an organization that has
                          joined other organizations in this initiative.
                          WEF processes may not be open, (it is upto the
                          WEF to decide on its own style of managing
                          their business forum), but as a participant of
                          the NETmundial Initiative, WEF may not
                          overwhelm this process with its own style. </div>
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                          2. NETMundial Initiative is a
                          multi-stakeholder process where each
                          stakeholder group would balance the other
                          groups. ​If the initial NMI processes weren't
                          perfect, I would rather consider it not so
                          well thought of - in its early stages. </div>
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                          As Harmut Glaser says, "<span style="color:
                            rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
                            arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">It is up
                            for the </span><span style="color: rgb(34,
                            34, 34); font-family: arial,sans-serif;
                            font-size: 14px;">community to transform NMI
                            into something that is concrete and useful </span><span
                            style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
                            arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">for the
                            advancement of IG in full respects of the
                            principles enshrined </span><span
                            style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
                            arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">in the
                            NETmundial declaration.</span>
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                              <div class="gmail_default" style="display:
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                              <div>So, yes, bringing in the WEF can be
                                considered a positive in some ways - but
                                not in the way the NMI process has gone
                                so far. </div>
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                                  <div>David</div>
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                                      <div>On 19 Nov 2014, at 5:21 pm,
                                        Sivasubramanian M <<a
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com"
                                          target="_parent">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>>
                                        wrote:</div>
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                                            Dear Guru,</div>
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                                                ​(You (Guru) said:  ​</div>
                                              WEF is a primarily group
                                              of big businesses. We have
                                              seen the increasing danger
                                              to the ideals of the WSIS
                                              Declaration of Principles
                                              from the activities of
                                              transnational
                                              corporations. Apart from
                                              using/monetising our data
                                              for their commercial gains
                                              in
                                              authorised/unauthorised/</span><span
                                              style="color: rgb(34, 34,
                                              34); font-family: arial;">illegitimate/illegal

                                              ways, their unregulated
                                              work also is structuring
                                              our participation in the
                                              information society in
                                              many unhealthy ways.
                                              Through Snowden we also
                                              understand how many of
                                              them are in cahoots with
                                              the 5 eyes (USG+) on
                                              extraordinary programme of
                                              global surveillance</span></blockquote>
                                          <div><br>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div style="color: rgb(51,
                                              51, 51); display: inline;"><font
                                                face="verdana,
                                                sans-serif">​If such as
                                                strong generalization of
                                                big business is to be
                                                accepted as fair and
                                                valid, then all those
                                                who subscribe to such a
                                                generalization may have
                                                to go back to the WSIS
                                                declarations and
                                                summarily exclude
                                                Business as a
                                                Stakeholder group, and
                                                then declare that
                                                Internet Governance
                                                ought to be a process
                                                with two stakeholder
                                                groups - Government +
                                                Civil Society.  No, no,
                                                on second thoughts I see
                                                your reference to
                                                Snowden and USG+, so the
                                                Civil Society could
                                                exclude Government from
                                                Internet Governance, and
                                                declare that Internet
                                                Governance must be
                                                reinvented as a single
                                                stakeholder group
                                                process, with Civil
                                                Society as the only
                                                stakeholder group. </font></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div style="color: rgb(51,
                                              51, 51); display: inline;"><font
                                                face="verdana,
                                                sans-serif"><br>
                                              </font></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div style="color: rgb(51,
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                                                face="verdana,
                                                sans-serif">
                                                <div style="display:
                                                  inline;">Seriously, i</div>
                                                <div style="display:
                                                  inline;">f WSIS had
                                                  committed to build a "</div>
                                                <span style="color:
                                                  rgb(34, 34, 34);">people-centred,
                                                  inclusive and
                                                  development-oriented
                                                  Information Society
                                                  <div style="color:
                                                    rgb(51, 51, 51);
                                                    display: inline;">​
                                                    ", what happens to
                                                    inclusiveness and
                                                    development with
                                                    such a position on
                                                    Big Business? ​</div>
                                                </span><br>
                                              </font></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div style="color: rgb(51,
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                                                face="verdana,
                                                sans-serif"><br>
                                              </font></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div style="color: rgb(51,
                                              51, 51); display: inline;"><font
                                                face="verdana,
                                                sans-serif">And, why
                                                this hatred for big
                                                business? Most progress
                                                in this world has
                                                happened because of
                                                enterprise, much more
                                                because of business than
                                                because of Government. 
                                                Granted, some of the
                                                information technology
                                                big businesses have
                                                worked with Governments
                                                on surveillance designs,
                                                and even there, we do
                                                not know how of much of
                                                such cooperation came
                                                out of a desire for
                                                profit and how much of
                                                it was forced by
                                                arm-twisting or by
                                                milder pressures in so
                                                many subtle and
                                                imaginative ways. </font></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div style="color: rgb(51,
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                                                face="verdana,
                                                sans-serif"><br>
                                              </font></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div><span style="color:
                                              rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font
                                                face="verdana,
                                                sans-serif">Irrespective
                                                of how WEF's role has
                                                been articulated at the
                                                moment, it is a very
                                                positive development to
                                                bring in the WEF
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                                                  . </div>
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                                              ​</div>
                                            <span style="color: rgb(51,
                                              51, 51); font-family:
                                              verdana,sans-serif;">WEF
                                              participation suddenly
                                              expands business
                                              participation to a world
                                              of business outside the IT
                                              sector, so WEF's attention
                                              to IG issues might by
                                              itself act as a balancing
                                              influence within the
                                              corporate world, because
                                              many of these Big
                                              Businesses are Internet
                                              "users" themselves. 
                                              <div style="color: rgb(51,
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                                                ​Some of these Big
                                                Businesses are possibly
                                                charitable in unknown
                                                ways. What is needed
                                                here is strong support
                                                at the moment, and w</div>
                                            </span><span style="color:
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                                              font-family:
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                                              could
                                            </span>
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                                              ​eventually ​</div>
                                            <span style="color: rgb(51,
                                              51, 51); font-family:
                                              verdana,sans-serif;">work
                                              towards a greater balance
                                              across stakeholder
                                              groups.​
                                            </span>
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                                              display: inline;">
                                              ​</div>
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                                                <div dir="ltr"><a
                                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy"
                                                    target="_parent">Sivasubramanian
                                                    M</a></div>
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                                            </div>
                                            <br>
                                            <div class="gmail_quote">On
                                              Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:52
                                              PM, Guru <span dir="ltr"><<a
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Guru@itforchange.net" target="_parent">Guru@itforchange.net</a>></span>
                                              wrote:<br>
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                                                <div>Dear Mawaki<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  I would like to cite
                                                  from two sources:<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  A. WSIS Declaration of
                                                  Principles -  <a
                                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html"
                                                    target="_parent">
http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html</a>  (the very
                                                  first two clauses)<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  1. We, the
                                                  representatives of the
                                                  peoples of the world*,
                                                  *assembled in Geneva
                                                  from 10-12 December
                                                  2003 for the first
                                                  phase of the World
                                                  Summit on the
                                                  Information Society,*
                                                  declare our common
                                                  desire and commitment
                                                  to build a
                                                  people-centred,
                                                  inclusive and
                                                  development-oriented
                                                  Information Society,
                                                  where everyone can
                                                  create, access,
                                                  utilize and share
                                                  information and
                                                  knowledge, enabling
                                                  individuals,
                                                  communities and
                                                  peoples to achieve
                                                  their full potential
                                                  in promoting their
                                                  sustainable
                                                  development and
                                                  improving their
                                                  quality of life,
                                                  premised on the
                                                  purposes and
                                                  principles of the
                                                  Charter of the United
                                                  Nations and respecting
                                                  fully and upholding
                                                  the Universal
                                                  Declaration of Human
                                                  Rights.<br>
                                                  2. Our challenge* is
                                                  to harness the
                                                  potential of
                                                  information and
                                                  communication
                                                  technology to promote
                                                  the development goals
                                                  of the Millennium
                                                  Declaration, namely
                                                  the eradication of
                                                  extreme poverty and
                                                  hunger; achievement of
                                                  universal primary
                                                  education; promotion
                                                  of gender equality and
                                                  empowerment of women;
                                                  reduction of child
                                                  mortality; improvement
                                                  of maternal health; to
                                                  combat HIV/AIDS,
                                                  malaria and other
                                                  diseases; ensuring
                                                  environmental
                                                  sustainability; and
                                                  development of global
                                                  partnerships for
                                                  development for the
                                                  attainment of a more
                                                  peaceful, just and
                                                  prosperous world. We
                                                  also reiterate our
                                                  commitment to the
                                                  achievement of
                                                  sustainable
                                                  development and agreed
                                                  development goals, as
                                                  contained in the
                                                  Johannesburg
                                                  Declaration and Plan
                                                  of Implementation and
                                                  the Monterrey
                                                  Consensus, and other
                                                  outcomes of relevant
                                                  United Nations
                                                  Summits.<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  I now will cite  from
                                                  the WEF site - <a
                                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.weforum.org/our-members" target="_parent">
http://www.weforum.org/our-members</a><br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  Begin<br>
                                                  Our Members<br>
                                                  The World Economic
                                                  Forum is a membership
                                                  organization. Our
                                                  Members comprise 1,000
                                                  of the world’s top
                                                  corporations, global
                                                  enterprises usually
                                                  with more than US$ 5
                                                  billion in turnover. 
                                                  These enterprises rank
                                                  among the top
                                                  companies within their
                                                  industry and play a
                                                  leading role in
                                                  shaping the future of
                                                  their industry and
                                                  region. Some of our
                                                  Member companies join
                                                  the Forum’s Strategic
                                                  and Industry
                                                  Partnership
                                                  communities, which are
                                                  designed to deepen
                                                  their engagement with
                                                  the Forum’s events,
                                                  project and
                                                  initiatives.  The
                                                  Forum’s Members are at
                                                  the heart of all our
                                                  activities.<br>
                                                  End<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  It is clear that WEF
                                                  is a primarily group
                                                  of big businesses. We
                                                  have seen the
                                                  increasing danger to
                                                  the ideals of the WSIS
                                                  Declaration of
                                                  Principles from the
                                                  activities of
                                                  transnational
                                                  corporations. Apart
                                                  from using/monetising
                                                  our data for their
                                                  commercial gains in
                                                  authorised/unauthorised/illegitimate/illegal
                                                  ways, their
                                                  unregulated work also
                                                  is structuring our
                                                  participation in the
                                                  information society in
                                                  many unhealthy ways.
                                                  Through Snowden we
                                                  also understand how
                                                  many of them are in
                                                  cahoots with the 5
                                                  eyes (USG+) on
                                                  extraordinary
                                                  programme of global
                                                  surveillance, which
                                                  helps them in their
                                                  goals of
                                                  political-economic
                                                  domination /
                                                  colonisation
                                                  <br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  Participating in
                                                  forums anchored in
                                                  such a space will only
                                                  legitimise their
                                                  power.  I am clear
                                                  that IGC should not
                                                  participate in the
                                                  NMI.<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  thanks and regards<br>
                                                  Guru<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  Gurumurthy Kasinathan<br>
                                                  Director, IT for
                                                  Change<br>
                                                  In Special
                                                  Consultative Status
                                                  with the United
                                                  Nations ECOSOC<br>
                                                  <a
                                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.itforchange.net/" target="_parent">www.ITforChange.Net</a>|
                                                  Cell:<a
                                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:91%209845437730" target="_parent">91 9845437730</a> | Tel:<a
                                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:91%2080%2026654134" target="_parent">91 80 26654134</a>,
                                                  26536890<br>
                                                  <a
                                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Subject_Teacher_Forum"
                                                    target="_parent">http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Subject_Teacher_Forum</a>
                                                  <div>
                                                    <div><br>
                                                      <br>
                                                      On Tuesday 18
                                                      November 2014
                                                      05:02 PM, Mawaki
                                                      Chango wrote:<br>
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                                                        style="white-space:
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                                                        Dear All,<br>
                                                        > <br>
                                                        > You must
                                                        have heard a
                                                        good deal about
                                                        this by now, so
                                                        I won't repeat<br>
                                                        > the
                                                        background
                                                        details. In the
                                                        middle of the
                                                        night last
                                                        night, before<br>
                                                        > hitting the
                                                        bed after a long
                                                        and drawn out
                                                        day playing
                                                        catch-up with<br>
                                                        > deadlines,
                                                        I saw that Ian
                                                        (chair of CSCG)
                                                        forwarded the
                                                        NMI<br>
                                                        >
                                                        Transitional
                                                        Committee's
                                                        reply the CSCG
                                                        enquiry.
                                                        Basically, they
                                                        are<br>
                                                        > willing to
                                                        let the CSCG vet
                                                        CS candidates to
                                                        be part of the
                                                        NMI<br>
                                                        >
                                                        Coordination
                                                        Council.<br>
                                                        > <br>
                                                        > Now the
                                                        question before
                                                        us is to get a
                                                        feel of the
                                                        membership of
                                                        CSCG<br>
                                                        > member
                                                        entities as to
                                                        whether to get
                                                        involved in the
                                                        NMI process or<br>
                                                        > not. I
                                                        believe this is
                                                        the last step in
                                                        the
                                                        consultations
                                                        we've been<br>
                                                        > having
                                                        (with NMI
                                                        initiators,
                                                        among ourselves
                                                        at the CSCG and
                                                        with the<br>
                                                        > membership
                                                        of our
                                                        respective
                                                        organizations.)
                                                        After this we
                                                        should be<br>
                                                        > able to
                                                        give a definite
                                                        answer,
                                                        formulate a
                                                        definite
                                                        position about<br>
                                                        > our
                                                        participation in
                                                        the NMI process.<br>
                                                        > <br>
                                                        > So what do
                                                        you think?
                                                        Please get right
                                                        to the point and
                                                        be brief.<br>
                                                        > State your
                                                        preference for
                                                        IGC Involvement
                                                        or No
                                                        involvement and,
                                                        if<br>
                                                        > you care to
                                                        provide us with
                                                        such, I would be
                                                        grateful to you
                                                        if you<br>
                                                        > could keep
                                                        your supporting
                                                        argument in one
                                                        short paragraph
                                                        (as we<br>
                                                        > just want
                                                        to take the
                                                        "temperature of
                                                        the room" if you
                                                        see what I<br>
                                                        > mean.)<br>
                                                        > <br>
                                                        > Thank you
                                                        for your
                                                        understanding.
                                                        Best regards.<br>
                                                        > <br>
                                                        > Mawaki<br>
                                                        > <br>
                                                        > <br>
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