McT, maybe you should watch the video a few times more... :) --c.a. On 10/10/2013 09:57 AM, McTim wrote: > 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. > >