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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">Why do you conflate icann with
the usa, parminder? </p>
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December 26, 2014 6:26:38 PM "Dave Farber via ip"
<ip@listbox.com> wrote:</p>
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Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>parminder</b> <<a
href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>><br>Date:
Friday, December 26, 2014<br>Subject: NETmundial Initiative Announces
Formation of its Inaugural Coordination Council and a Broad Global
Community Consultation Phase | NETmundial<br>To: <a
href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>,
"Louis Pouzin (well)" <<a
href="mailto:pouzin@well.com">pouzin@well.com</a>>, Dave Farber <<a
href="mailto:farber@gmail.com">farber@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: "Bits
<a
href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>"
<<a
href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>><br><br><br>
  
    
  
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    <font face="Verdana">I feel and share your acute disappointment
      Louis.  <br>
      <br>
      But I think there is more to it than the usual here. The US based
      'Internet power' establishment has made a (somewhat) genuine and
      perhaps successful cooptation, of the global elite, into a new
      power structure. Although it is too early to tell whether and how
      much will it succeed, but this new one with its 'apparent global
      nature' would be that much more difficult to directly target, much
      less beat. US is trying to shift attention away from the
      getting-too-hot-to-bear fact that it is just too powerful and too
      much at the centre of the Internet power system. (  WSIS plus 10
      is around the corner and one never knows what people/ countries
      may do given half a toehold, and this is the formal review of WSIS
      !!!) This is that attempt to shift attention by co-opting
the </font><font face="Verdana"><i><font
face="Verdana"><i>cr</i></font><em>è</em><font
face="Verdana"><i>me</i></font> de la cr</i></font><em>è</em><font
face="Verdana"><i>
        
        
        me</i> of the global elite. Yes,
      in fact it even may means some degree (very slight) of genuine
      giving away of power; but giving away to whom - an elite group
      chosen for their power in their respective spheres, and the
      interests represented by them. And well of course, the World
      Economic Forum is the perfect backdrop and stage, and also the
      perfect symbol, of such an unholy alliance of the powerful and the
      coopted. <br>
      <br>
    </font><font face="Verdana">With the emergence of this new
      configuration of Internet power, t</font><font face="Verdana">he
      dispossessed and the marginalised of the world took a hit today.
      They, and those who purport to work in their interest, will need
      to rethink and restrategise....<br>
      <br>
      There will be work to do in 2015 :)<br>
      <br>
      Wishing everyone a great 2015, and those taking a holiday, do take
      a good rest (but dont rest your convictions :), we will need all
      your energies in 2015)<br>
      <br>
      parminder<br>
      <br>
    </font>
    <div>On Friday 26 December 2014 04:04 PM,
      Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:<br>
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          <div>Superb NMI gibberish.<br>
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          <div>A perfect collection of usual suspects.<br>
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          Thanks Dave, and interesting expectations for 2015.<br>
          Louis.<br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Lee
            W McKnight <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lmcknigh@syr.edu');"
target="_blank">lmcknigh@syr.edu</a>></span>
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style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>From:</b>
                  Dave Farber via ip <<a
href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ip@listbox.com');"
target="_blank">ip@listbox.com</a>><br>
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color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif">
                        <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 24, 2014 10:58
                        AM<br>
                        <b>To:</b> ip<br>
                        <b>Subject:</b> [IP] NETmundial Initiative
                        Announces Formation of its Inaugural
                        Coordination Council and a Broad Global
                        Community Consultation Phase | NETmundial</font>
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                      <p dir="ltr"><a
href="https://www.netmundial.org/blog/secretariat/netmundial-initiative-announces-formation-its-inaugural-coordination-council-and"
target="_blank">https://www.netmundial.org/blog/secretariat/netmundial-initiative-announces-formation-its-inaugural-coordination-council-and</a></p>
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