[discuss] ITU - Internet related Resolutions

[Bill Woodcock]

Other fora don't have a 150-year-old secretariat with a declining budget, full of bureaucrats desperate to see that budget not hit zero before their retirement accounts are fully funded. 

    
                -Bill


> On Oct 27, 2014, at 22:51, "Carlos Raúl G." <crg at isoc-cr.org> wrote:
> 
> I ask myself the same question: how different for Governments is  the ITU forum from other Fora where they seems perfectly happy with the bottom up MS model?
> 
> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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>> El 27/10/2014, a las 7:33, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com> escribió:
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>> I am curious to know why Brazil is on the side of Russia, despite embracing the multi-stakeholder model, demonstrated recently by Dilma Roussef's support for NetMundial and despite the proven success of nic.br's multi-stakeholder model, despite the benevolent influence of Brazilian Community Leaders like Harmut Glaser. What caused Brazil to be part of IBSA and why is it on the wrong side?
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>> Sivasubramanian M
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>>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
>>> > On Oct 26, 2014, at 4:43 PM, Adam <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>>> > Is Saudi speaking for a large block of countries?
>>> 
>>> In so far as lines are drawn, here’s what I’ve observed this evening:
>>> 
>>> On one side:
>>> The Internets
>>> United Kingdom
>>> Bulgaria
>>> Japan
>>> Canada
>>> USA
>>> Australia
>>> Ghana
>>> Nigeria
>>> New Zealand
>>> Grenada
>>> 
>>> On the other side:
>>> Saudi Arabia
>>> Argentina
>>> Brazil
>>> Paraguay
>>> Oman
>>> Russia
>>> 
>>> Wildcard:
>>> India
>>> 
>>> Helpful grammar authoritarians, who are striving to make evil documents at least marginally intelligible:
>>> Bulgaria
>>> Sweden
>>> 
>>> Meeting concluded with an admonishment by the chair to Saudi Arabia to consider limiting its contributions to ones which “reflect present reality.”
>>> 
>>> The Internet-issues ad-hoc reconvenes at 18:00 on Wednesday, unless the secretariat is able to find an earlier time.
>>> 
>>> Fact-checking the idiocy that’s spouted in this room is surprisingly difficult, given 85% packet loss getting out of the building.  One could be cynical about that, but I’ll resist the urge.
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>>>                                 -Bill
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