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BTW, whoever thinks the proposed April Summit will be mainly Icann is on<br>
for a big surprise. Dilma is thinking far beyond just the "phone list of<br>
the Internet", as she calls it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is not surprise at all since Brazil's policy has been for a long time and very consistent, to achieve (as clearly shown in the last WCIT) a very high degree of inference into Internet Governance whatever it may mean, with a big push to institute a model where governments have a dominant control and decision power.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All the NSA related mambo jambo, what it has been said at UN, etc, etc, is a big pile of yada yada, that is mostly driven by other forces not really very interested in privacy or human rights. Focusing on the actions of one governments and pretending that self or others don't do the same or worse is a total hypocrisy.</div>
<div><a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB122331824781908463">http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB122331824781908463</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Many media outlets and reporters are taking this "Summit" as a reaction of Brazilian Government due the NSA</div>
<div><br></div><div>From <a href="http://rt.com/news/brazil-internet-summit-fight-nsa-006/">http://rt.com/news/brazil-internet-summit-fight-nsa-006/</a>:</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Segoe UI','Gill Sans Light',Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:21px">"Brazilian leaders have announced they plan to host an international conference on internet governance next year, a declaration that comes after the nation has lobbied without success to change NSA policies used by the US to monitor Brazil."</span><br>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Segoe UI','Gill Sans Light',Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:21px"><br></span></div><div>This particular issue is a bilateral problem between the Brazilian and United States governments, and have nothing to do with Internet Governance, ICANN or any other organization.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If the NSA or whatever spook agency is out there doing similar stuff, keeps getting the mandate and funds to operate, they will figure the way to keep sniffing into your communications, no matter what, you can move the servers, you can write from scratch an email system, or whatever, it only takes a corrupt government official or a badly paid technician to circumvent any "reactive" actions, and I know very well that particularly in South America (and many other parts of the world) those type of people abound. This is not an Internet engineering problem or operating problem.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now if you disassociate the motivations and goals for this "Summit" from the NSA/USG and want to drive an open and honest not biased conversation about IG we are talking about something different, but what is then the value of IGF ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Perhaps it could make sense to move the UN HQ and Assembly Building to Rio de Janeiro ...</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think Fadi has launched (since he took office, and in good faith) a<br>
complex process which would probably fit in a much larger/broader<br>
organization. This will result in adjustments, reality checks (and<br>
shocks) and so on.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Fadi is an executive officer hired by the organization, like a CEO in any other corporation without consent from the BoD he can't start processes that are way beyond his role and responsibilities. If that is the game he wants to play as an individual he should resign as CEO of ICANN.</div>
<div><br></div><div>None of the individuals that participated at the famous Montevideo meeting are representative of the Internet as whole.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Interesting times!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Indeed.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Jorge</div><div> </div></div></div></div>