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Norbert Klein

in Cambodia


On 9/12/2016 9:07 PM, Mueller, Milton L wrote:
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> *From:*Paul Rosenzweig [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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> Don’t you believe the Board when it promises that the accountability 
> changes will happen no matter what the transition?
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> MM: Mostly, Paul, I don’t believe you or other opponents of the 
> transition when they say they favor a transition but want it delayed. 
> As you know, I don’t believe a period of abeyance is a viable option. 
> If the transition is shot down during this administration and we have 
> to wait for a new one, everything we have agreed to do as part of the 
> transition is up in the air. It could all be completely changed by a 
> new NTIA head giving us new criteria, or a new Congress passing new 
> restrictions or requirements in order to appeal to deluded and 
> uninformed rightwing constituencies. Whatever happens would depend 
> entirely on U.S. domestic politics.
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> I also know that many aspects of the revised bylaws simply cannot go 
> into effect until the NTIA contract is gone, so disrupting that 
> effectively sends us back to the drawing board.
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> You know this as well as I do, Paul, please stop being disingenuous 
> about your support for the transition. As far as I can tell, you want 
> the US government to stay in control of the DNS. Full stop. If that’s 
> not true, I look forward to seeing Heritage as an organization or you 
> as an individual publicly challenge the dishonest and manipulative 
> statements issued by Senator Cruz and WSJ columnist L. Gordon Crovitz. 
> It seems you want to have it both ways, feign support for the 
> transition but align yourself with irrational politicians who are 
> seizing on this issue to fearmonger, whip up nationalistic fervor and 
> attack the Obama administration for purely partisan purposes. Time to 
> distance yourself from that nonsense, else completely lose credibility 
> in this group.
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> Dr. Milton L Mueller
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> Professor, School of Public Policy <http://spp.gatech.edu/>
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> Georgia Institute of Technology
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> Internet Governance Project
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> http://internetgovernance.org/
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