<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 6, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Tracy:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Thanks for your effort. However, the original “concern” came from the fact that there was not enough people from “the South” on the panel. Typically this means non-European/North American and from developing countries. A governmental rep from Portugal is probably not what these objectors had in mind (especially if Bill is right that this one has not been that supportive of the LDC perspective).</span></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Again, she is very good and supportive of development concerns in ICANN, IGF etc, but she's from the North and has not been an advocate of a G77-style position on intergovernmentalism. That profile is already on the panel. Please let's discuss possible speakers off list and coordinate any outreach to avoid further awkwardness.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></body></html>