On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:50 PM, michael gurstein <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Why so pessimistic and cynical everyone.. I may be wrong but this isn't just
> about ICANN, although hats off to Fadi for getting this going and putting
> that into play…


I'm not pessimistic or cynical.

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> But I would be extremely surprised if the Pres. of Brazil is going to invite
> the world to Rio in April next year to discuss names and numbers. Rather my
> reading is that she is by-passing the quite evident log-jam at the ITU, the
> frivolities of the IGF, the now discredited "Internet Freedom" crusade and
> the status quo which it was intended to cast into concrete errr… (non) rules
> and regs.



It appears to me, after watching the video again several times that it
is ICANN (and I assume the rest of the Montevideoans) that are
spearheading this.  In other words the idea of the Summit comes from
the T&A folks, not Brasilia.


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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel