Well put, Carlos, and interesting - wish I'd had this observation of yours before blogging. Feel free to enter it as a comment if you want to enrich the record there. -----Original Message----- > All the more so because, as you know, there are strong sectors within > the government who would love to bring the root-zone to the purview of > the ITU, who hate Icann, who do not like the pluriparticipative model > of governance we defend, and who are basically associated with the > transnational telecom oligopoly which controls the main networks in BR. > Dilma is courageously up against a huge wall here, to defend those > principles, and receiving Fadi and emerging from the meeting with thar > proposal was a major political milestone for her in those internal > disputes as well. > > [] fraterno