<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Mar 13, 2014, at 1:40 PM, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I believe that question was actually one of the topics that the NETmundial was seeking input on...</span></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">[MG>] perhaps, but the way in which this has been presented, including the selection of representatives to the various committees has been such as to frame the question in a manner which involves a pre-judgement i.e. not whether MSism, but how MSism� </span></i></b></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">...</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">[MG>] as a matter of fact, most of the one�s I�ve looked at made the presumption that MSism was the way to go forward and built from there.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></div><div>In reviewing the materials for the meeting, there does indeed seem to be a presumption</div><div>that a multistakeholder approach is the appropriate model for conducting the discussions</div><div>(for example, one can look at the meeting title itself) If you have a significant concern with </div><div>the NetMundial structure, that's probably something that would be best to take up with the </div><div>convener.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll note that 1net discussion list is trying to catalyze community-wide efforts "towards the </div><div>evolution of global multistakeholder Internet cooperation", so it also might be predisposed </div><div>towards such multistakeholder approaches... </div><div><br></div><div>Do you know of many folks who are interested in discussion of non-multistakeholder </div><div>approaches to this problem? Perhaps if you could write up an alternative proposal, we</div><div>can strive to discuss it on this list (and ask that you tolerate any potential selection bias</div><div>in current list participants?)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: My views alone.</div><div><br></div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>