[governance] A false consensus is broken

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

I surely will. 

--srs (htc one x)


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From: "Adam Peake" <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>, "parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net>
Subject: [governance] A false consensus is broken
Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2012 6:54 PM


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:30 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
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> On Friday 21 December 2012 05:11 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
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>> On 21 Dec 2012, at 04:47, parminder wrote:
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>>> The United States’s decision to walk out of the International
>>> Telecommunication Union’s World Conference on International
>>> Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai along with some of its allies last week
>>> could represent a turning point in global Internet governance.
>>
>> No one walked out.
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>> avri
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> You are talking like a diplomat, Avri :) . What happened is called a walkout
> although maybe a diplomat wont ever utter that word.
>

Parminder, no one walked out. Nothing to do with diplomacy, you either
do not understand what you are writing or are lying.  Which is it?

You've written a highly misleading piece and the editor of an
important newspaper has been duped into publishing it.

In one paragraph you say the ITRs are about basic principles governing
technical matters,how the ITU is a poor innocent, and then how
developing countries are left without any global forum to turn to for
a role in governance of the Internet.  How much more confused could
you be about the ITRs, WCIT and ITU?

When Saudi Arabia (yes, that bastion of democracy and fairness) said
is was unacceptable one party got everything it wants, they were not
talking about the worrisome extension of state rights you for some
misguided reason seem to support, but the proposal by Russia, UAE,
China, Saudi, Arabia, Algeria, Sudan, and Egypt to very much take over
the Internet. Saudi and UAE were threatening to bring that rubbish
back to the plenary.

I am sure the ITU is very pleased with you for taking such and active
role in their media campaign to spin the outcome of the ITRs. I hope
members of India's civil society who are better  informed and less in
the ITU's pocket than you will speak up when the Indian positiio




Your on human rights

> See
> http://www.eweek.com/cloud/wcit-treaty-talks-end-in-dubai-with-walkout-of-us-allies/
> among many instance of press coverage that uses this term 'walkout' for what
> happened.
>
> BTW, do you have any other substantive comment on the article?
>
> parminder
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