[discuss] /1net Steering/Coordination Commitee

Thu Dec 19 19:56:47 UTC 2013

+1

I would suggest aiming to represent at least three different major regions
of the world (three Americans ought to be enough).

~Chris

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is getting weird. I never used to agree with Milton and
> now I agree with him on almost everything.
>
> A list of people from US businesses only is significantly worse
> than useless. This is no reflection on the individuals listed,
> of course, but it will be universally regarded as putting the
> foxes in charge of the hen house.
>

> Regards
>    Brian
>
> On 20/12/2013 08:16, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> > I must say to my colleagues in the business community, I could not
> imagine a worse blunder than to stack all 5 positions on a Coordinating
> committee concerned with global Internet governance with 5 Americans or
> representatives of American corporations.
> >
> > Considering that US pre-eminence, either through the IANA contract or
> via NSA surveillance, is both a precipitant and a topic of the meeting,
> this selection of representatives reaches a level of transnational
> tone-deafness that is truly staggering. Do you have any idea what message
> you are sending to the rest of us? Really, now, the ICC BASIS was unable to
> come up with a _single_ small business, not a single Indian or Chinese or
> Korean or European or African entrepreneur? Heck, do they even _have_
> businesses in those places? ;-)
> >
> > If I were 1net, I would send this list back to with two words: get real.
> >
> > ________________________________________
> >
> > ** from Business:
> >
> > 1. Aparna Sridhar, Telecom Policy Counsel, Google
> > 2. David Fares, Senior Vice President, Government Relations, 21st
> Century Fox
> > 3. Marilyn Cade, President, ICT Strategies mCade
> > 4. Sarah Wynn-Williams, Manager, Global Public Policy, Facebook
> > 5. Paul Mitchell, Senior Director, Technology Policy, Microsoft
> Corporation
> >
> >
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