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