Dear Milton Mueller,

Much appreciated. We should welcome this sort of initiative as long as it
act as a facilitator. We have been organizing similar events locally for a
few years with similar supports (as it is understood). Mode of conduction
can be developed at later stage, but we should in principle agree on this
issue.

Best Regards.
Hakik.

At 02:55 AM 1/28/05, Milton Mueller wrote:

>Harold, Hakikur and Eung Hwi
>
>Your comments were great, how about something like this as an agreed
>position:
>
>Regarding the "Restricted Fund for Developing Country Internet
>Communities."
>
>We support the concept but would prefer to see it re-labelled a
>"Restricted Fund for Technical Forums in Developing Countries."
>Encouraging and facilitating knowledge-sharing on technical matters
>related to DNS and IP protocols falls within ICANN's general purview and
>fosters coordination rather than top-down management. We would encourage
>ICANN to avoid taking responsibility for building "Internet communities"
>in developing countries; local Internet communities should develop
>autonomously from the bottom up. We encourage ICANN to define clear and
>transparent procedures for organizations to apply for these funds and to
>avoid making grants at the discretion of central staff. ICANN should
>have objective, neutral and participatory mechanisms to determine who
>gets these funds. Any evaluation committee should include
>representatives from each of the Supporting Organizations.
>
>
>--MM


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