[governance] Whose lives are we helping, anyway? WAS Re: [bestbits] Remarks at UNESCO Closing Ceremony of "Connecting the Dots Conference"

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Oh well.. There was also the internet ad hoc council pre icann that 
included Bob Shaw (now retired from ITU) and that first met in Geneva

That was when ITU had a rather more constructive role to play than it tends 
to do now (and Bob was responsible for the wsis action like c5 open 
consultations at ITU Geneva back in 2007-08, I believe a substantial cross 
section of this caucus was there, all with access to flags)



On March 9, 2015 10:41:29 PM "Bill Woodcock" <woody at pch.net> wrote:

> > On Mar 9, 2015, at 10:06, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro> wrote:
> > The source of all of IG is WSIS.
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> Uh...  How old are you?  How do you think the Internet was governed for the 
> 35 years prior to the ITU having heard about it?
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