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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>
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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>
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There will be work to do in 2015 :)<br>
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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>
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<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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Dave Farber via ip <<a
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target="_blank">ip@listbox.com</a>><br>
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<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
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target="_blank">https://www.netmundial.org/blog/secretariat/netmundial-initiative-announces-formation-its-inaugural-coordination-council-and</a></p>
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