[governance] Google's Fight the ITU/WCIT website

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

There's more. Becoming a sector member gives google some obligations that can be imposed on it by ITU.  I can see why they might prefer to criticise ITU from the outside, in preference to becoming a sector member and paying the membership fee, which you will agree is relatively pocket change to google.

--srs (iPad)

On 25-Nov-2012, at 18:17, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Fahd A. Batayneh <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pure government-like press releases, but there is a strong message between the lines (such as Google not being a member and their 125 or so attendances).
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> Just to be clear, it's the US delegation which has 125 members, it's not Google sending 125 people.
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> The message between the lines about Google NOT being an ITU member is that even if they were a ITU member, they could not vote as a Member State.  In other words,  the ITU would like Google to pay it ~50,000 per year, but not give them a real say in the proceedings.
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> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
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