<div dir="ltr">Dave,<div><br></div><div>our elders are wise enough to both read the tea leaves and hear our voices. A good feature.</div><div><br></div><div>Your missing "not" sprang out of the page, but good you clarify. </div><div><br></div><div>In the big game we must also consider who is most irked by the WEF presence (hint: it's not the masses) but still this interview makes it appear like there is a vacuum to be filled - much of it close to ISOC's capabilities and roles. This vacuum didn't exist quite this way until the universe was expanded last year. </div><div><br></div><div>Alejandro Pisanty</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Dave Burstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daveb@dslprime.com" target="_blank">daveb@dslprime.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Folks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">A respected and usually well-informed community elder wrote me offlist </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"<span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I interpret Fadi's comments as relatively consistent with what he is saying within ICANN, and I do not believe that ICANN has significant security ambitions that go beyond ensuring the security, stability and resilience of the Internet's set of addressing identifiers -- which is specified in our bylaws.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> Which I hope is accurate and that Fadi is not looking to expand the work of ICANN. I'll be glad to discover I made a mistake and overstated the issue. i</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> Many datapoints suggest to me otherwise, particularly the top down approach he led in cooperation with WEF, the Billionaire Boys club. It makes no sense to bring in to Governance more megabillion dollar companies. Kathy Brown had strong words on the top-down nature of WEF/ICANN a month ago which if anything were understated. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> Tim Berners-Lee just warned </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6000003814697px;line-height:15.189715385437px">“Suddenly the power to abuse the open internet has become so tempting both for government and big companies.”</span><span style="font-family:arial"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/28/tim-berners-lee-internet-bill-of-rights-greater-privacy" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/28/tim-berners-lee-internet-bill-of-rights-greater-privacy</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Also, of course I meant "<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">I hope Fadi is <u>not</u> even close to doing what his words suggest. " Leaving out the "'not" was very careless.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial">Dave </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> </span></div><div dir="ltr">Editor, Fast Net News, Net Policy News and DSL Prime<br>Author with Jennie Bourne DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit)</div>
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