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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 23 March 2014 12:44 PM, John
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On Mar 23, 2014, at 2:59 PM, parminder <<a
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socially important today as the Internet, in absence of any
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<div>Really? There are hundreds of IETF protocols (and there can
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<div>Internet Drafts proposing changes or enhancements coming up
for consideration</div>
<div>to become an RFC at any given IETF meeting...)</div>
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<div>Decisions on all of those documents are "governance
functions"? That is </div>
<div>beyond believability, and hence I ask what criteria or
circumstances that</div>
<div>you believe would make a decision on a document an act of
"governance"...</div>
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Before I present my case, I would like to know whether you consider
ICANN's DNS functions as governance functions or not?<br>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>Disclaimers: My views alone.</div>
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