Hi Avri,

something like that should work.

My major concern is what is being used as a motivation or primary focus, which IMHO is a political issue that the proposed summit will not contribute much to solve, unless the participants have a lot of lobbying power ($$) in the US Congress.

Are people willing to talk openly about the vast number of issues related to this topic like the big firewall of China, or repressive regimes that target bloggers, or shutting down Internet services to avoid people getting organized, or government officials (as it happened in Brazil) snooping on the communication of their political opposition, or online persecution in Russia  of LBGT organizations and supporters, or how some governments let criminal organizations to conduct nefarious business like the exchange of child pornography ?, and so on, then we can add the NSA surveillance as one more topic to discuss, not THE topic.

Failing to see the big picture will make this summit just a show of political attitudes against the subject of Internet control by the Evil Empire (ie the USG)

My .04
Jorge



On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Avri Doria <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
hi,

Good point.

I read somewhere there was a way to sign and add something, though I may have just been hallucinating during the long trip back from the hot sweaty place that was Bali.  I will check on that and get back to the list on whether that is possible.

We can always just put our own signing statement that includes what you said ...  and perhaps other stuff people think needs to be said about the Brazil et al. sponsored whatchamacallit.

i.e something like

We wish to support the stmtn ...
but wish to add that ...

avri


On 27 Oct 2013, at 12:32, Jorge Amodio wrote:

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> NO. If the primary focus is surveillance, now if they are willing to widen the discussion to universal rights and other issues associated with IG, and governments obsession to gain control, and call for generating an open agenda we are talking about something totally different,
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> Regards
> Jorge
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> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:22 AM, avri <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> http://igcaucus.org/sign-on.html
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> Do we want to endorse as ncsg?
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> avri
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> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
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