<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Civil society and multistakeholder groups are rife with some people claiming to be spokespersons for everybody under the sun.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Government officials are bound by a rather more specific set of rules, I’d expect.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">regards</div><div class="">suresh</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20-Oct-2015, at 9:30 PM, Deirdre Williams <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" class="">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Suresh,<div class="">I suspect the authority may be the same as that that allows ICANN to speak for "<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" class="">stakeholders across the global Internet community</span>" </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;" class=""><a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions" class="">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions</a> </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;" class="">Best wishes</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;" class="">Deirdre</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""></span></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 October 2015 at 11:31, Suresh Ramasubramanian <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank" class="">suresh@hserus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The question here would be how or why he can speak for congress as a whole as opposed to current administration policy.<br class="">
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--srs<br class="">
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> On 20-Oct-2015, at 8:48 PM, Pranesh Prakash <<a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org" class="">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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>> On 20 October 2015 1:45:07 pm GMT+01:00, Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" class="">suresh@hserus.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
>> Come on, folks. Asking a fairly ambiguous question, getting an equally<br class="">
>> ambiguous answer and then making a mountain out of a molehill just to<br class="">
>> score a point doesn’t sound like a very productive way to go.<br class="">
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> Dear Suresh,<br class="">
> Could you please point out the ambiguity in the questions and suggest how we could rephrase it to avoid that ambiguity the next time we ask it? Thanks.<br class="">
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> The question was:<br class="">
> The technical stability of the DNS doesn't depend on the jurisdiction of ICANN. Will the US Congress support a shift in jurisdiction? And will there be a continued support for the multistakeholder model if the jurisdiction shifts?<br class="">
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> The transcript for the meeting will be provided soon:<br class="">
> <a href="https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/tue-ncuc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/tue-ncuc</a><br class="">
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> Regards,<br class="">
> Pranesh<br class="">
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