Final modification to NCUC statement on vertical integration/cross ownership

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Makes sense.  the policy stuff will be needed when, and if, it is time
for constituency statements.

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On 28 Aug 2009, at 14:05, Milton L Mueller wrote:

>
> Hello, all
> I've gotten some feedback from external stakeholders on our statement.
> This made it clear to me that the section on "policy issues" is
> something of a distraction to what our main point needs to be at
> this time. People who agree or disagree with those points tend to
> get stuck in that and lose sight of the recommendations, especially
> the all-important one that we need to have a policy process. Once we
> have a real policy process, we can debate and discuss the policy
> issues and take positions as NCUC; but it is needless to do that now.
>
> For that reason I offer this modified, and I hope final version,
> which simply eliminates the section formerly headlines as "Policy
> issues" and emphasizes the need to treat this as a policy issue and
> move the PDP process forward in the GNSO.
>
> <word doc attached>
>
> Milton Mueller
> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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> <NCUC-verticalRY-Rr-final.doc>