At 55 seconds in, Fadi says: "Her Excellency President Rousseff has accepted our invitation that we hold next year a Global Summit" Seem fairly clear to me. On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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. >> >> -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel