[Chapter-delegates] A few updates on NMI

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 7 January 2015 at 10:58, Alejandro Pisanty <apisanty at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joly, Evan,
>
> regarding ITU silence... maybe it isn't so -
> http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2015/01/7-brotman-itu-convening-power#.VK0whMnFExo.linkedin
>


​It wasn't me that mentioned it, but since the issue is raised...​


> Plus of course some principals in the ITU may see the healthy discrepancy
> within the Internet community as a struggle and decide to let us tear each
> other to pieces.
>

​
Th​is makes sense.



> That will not happen; we will not grant that wish.
>

​
Agreed, but this ​demands a certain amount of resolve. The temptation to
"well it's already there, we need to be on the inside no matter how badly
designed or intended it is" is strong to some.

The responses from NMI, no matter how arrogant (and its core apologists
have been extremely so), indicate that it is quite aware that without
legitimacy and buy-in it is nothing. The maintenance of the "empty seats"
indicates false confidence that we will eventually be worn down into
joining this "bottom up" organization on its terms. In a tactic perfected
and widely used by ICANN, it has offered to "listen" to us, only to the
extent our input does not affect the established core agenda.

This need not and should not happen.

There clearly has been some thought into what is the minimum necessary
"engagement" to buy our acceptance: The many paternalistic
"clarifications". The meeting with ICANN that was revealed to be all show
and no substance. The token financial contribution to the IGF in lieu of
any true recognition of the redundancies.

​So far ISOC has seen through this. I encourage and support its reaction to
date.​

​​- Evan


PS: Latest civil society org to speak out has been the EFF, which considers
NMI
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/internet-governance-and-netmundial-initiative-flawed-attempt-turning-words-action>
to be harmless, but useless.
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