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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Seun,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Could I respectfully suggest that you do some searching in the archives of this list and online where you will find my position on these matters, information on the Community Informatics community and other matters in which you seem to have an interest rather extensively presented including through my blog.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For a very quick and dirty summary/update please see the below…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>From: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:Newmedia@aol.com">Newmedia@aol.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Subject: Fwd: <nettime> an historic retreat</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Date: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>March 24, 2014 at 8:45:38 AM EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>To: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For IP (if you'd like) . . . <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From: <a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:nettime-l@kein.org">nettime-l@kein.org</a><br>Sent: 3/23/2014 2:38:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time<br>Subj: Re: <nettime> an historic retreat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear Nettimers:<br><br>There is a very much bigger game afoot where issues concerning the<br>NTIA/ICANN etc.etc. are mere pawns on the chessboard.<br><br>The NTIA announcement has to be seen in the context of the NetMundial<br>meeting to be convened in Brazil at the end of April and where the NTIA<br>announcement pre-empted a (quite likely and more or less global) agreement<br>on a rather worse set of recommendations from the US's perspective.<br><br>The key element in the NTIA/USG announcement was not the preamble but rather<br>the first bullet point i.e. the determination that the transfer would only<br>take place in a manner which would "Support and enhance the multistakeholder<br>model". This should be seen in the context of the USG's statement to the<br>NetMundial concerning its position on the future of Internet Governance<br><a href="http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/prsrl/2014/221946.htm">http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/prsrl/2014/221946.htm</a> where<br>"multistakeholderism" is mentioned 12 times and "democracy" is referred to<br>once in passing.<br><br>So what exactly is "multistakeholderism"? Well that isn't quite clear and no<br>one (least of all the US State Department) has pointed to a useful<br>definition. <br><br>But whatever it is, a key element is that all the relevant "stakeholders"<br>including the major Internet corporations get to sit around promoting their<br>"stakes" and making Internet policy through some sort of consensus process<br>where all the participants have an "equal" say and where rules of things<br>like procedure, conflict of interest etc.etc. all seem to be made up as they<br>go along. Also, it is becoming clear that the various proponents of MSism<br>see it as a replacement for democratic processes of Internet governance<br>(continuously misrepresented as being completely aligned with multilateral<br>processes). Clearly the major Internet corporations, the US government and<br>their allies in the technical and civil society communities are quite<br>enthusiastic -- getting to sit around and jointly work out things like<br>frameworks, principles and rules (or not) for privacy and security,<br>taxation, copyright etc. in an Internet enabled environment--pretty heady<br>stuff. Whether the outcome in any sense is supportive of the broad public<br>interest and an Internet for the Common Good, well that isn't so clear.<br><br>Mike<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:nettime-l-bounces@mail.kein.org">nettime-l-bounces@mail.kein.org</a><br>[<a href="mailto:nettime-l-bounces@mail.kein.org">mailto:nettime-l-bounces@mail.kein.org</a>] On Behalf Of Felix Stalder<br>Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 2:59 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:nettime-l@kein.org">nettime-l@kein.org</a><br>Subject: Re: <nettime> an historic retreat<br><br><br>Hi Dan,<br><br>I must say, I've never really understood the politics around ICANN. That has<br>always been too arcane for me. So I don't understand this development<br>either.<br><...><br><br><br># distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission<br># <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,<br># collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets<br># more info: <a href="http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l">http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l</a><br># archive: <a href="http://www.nettime.org">http://www.nettime.org</a> contact: <a href="mailto:nettime@kein.org">nettime@kein.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David Farber<br><br>Carnegie Mellon University Adjunct Professor of Internet Studies<br>University of Pennsylvania Alfred Fitler Moore Emeritus Professor of Telecommunications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Delaware Distinguished Policy Fellow <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Board Member -- EFF, EPIC and ISOC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Board Emeritus Stevens Institute of Technology<br><br>Cell: +1-412-726-9889<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Google Voice: (864) 8Farber<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Email: <a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a><br><br>Public Key Fingerprint: 2133 594F 87C6 DC11 8BCD 6897 F46C 3C84 91C7 03FA<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Seun Ojedeji [mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 24, 2014 8:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> michael gurstein<br><b>Cc:</b> Alejandro Pisanty; discuss@1net.org; governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [discuss] Celebrating CS gains through MSism was RE: Comcast undertakes 9 year IETF cosponsorship!?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Hello Michael,<o:p></o:p></p><p>On a serious note, at times I get confused on your views. Initially indicate the the USG (which is basically any typical govt) is the issue that should be removed from the process and thank goodness the USG heard and responded positively. Now you are saying the multistakeholder approach is also not it, then what is the solution?<br>You are giving example of organisation you belong (which for instance I don't know and can't find foot print of it's activities online) have you tried to make your contribution known and was kicked back?<br>I think comments like this is what makes the whole multistakeholder approach more complicated. I know you probably have more experience than I do, however I think it may be good to not further complicate things for those who are trying to understand/educate themselves through this medium.<br>It will be more constructive to read from you, what you think is the problem and how to fix it. Than just sticking with the problem. This is why I appreciate Milton's approach (which does not necessarily mean it's the solution, but he has put something on the table) and I can say I learnt from it.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Cheers!<o:p></o:p></p><p>sent from Google nexus 4<br>kindly excuse brevity and typos.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 24 Mar 2014 23:26, "michael gurstein" <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think Alejandro’s note below illustrates one of the fundamental limitations of the multistakeholder approach.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Alejandro states: </span><i>this statement puts in a nutshell what never ceases to amaze me: civil society has gained the most among all sectors from the multistakeholder component of governance, be it Internet, finance, or the environment. We from civil society have broken silos and gained a global voice and unparallelled global influence, often paired with influence inside our countries.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i> </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I don’t wish to comment on the truth or falsity of this statement. However, I would note that in the midst of the recitation of those involved in these processes and the “gains” made by Civil Society interests (and presumably others) I must ask what has happened to the “public interest” i.e. the interests of all over and above the individual sectional interests; or the interests of other non-represented groups in these processes. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>For example, the Community Informatics community of which I am a part, concerned as it with the interests of grassroots communities particularly the marginalized, has only a partially overlapping set of concerns/”interests” and particularly priorities with “civil society” (as for example is indicated by the issues presented by CS in Tunis where the CS priority was focused on Human Rights while the CI community was rather more concerned with access and social justice issues). Given the refusal of “Civil Society” to include CI and its concerns within its framework and the refusal of those acting as stakeholder gatekeepers for current MS processes to allow for an independent status for the CI community Alejandro’s self-congratulatory statement above rings rather hollow.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>But over and above this is the matter of who and how the public interest is represented—for example in ensuring that processes are fair, transparent and accountable and not subverted or suborned to individual or private interests; for ensuring a necessary range of participation including among those who might, for a variety of reasons, not be actively pursuing such participation; for including normative diversity (including those supportive of social justice) as well as identity based diversity; and for representing the Internet as a global public commons among others.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I remain to be informed as to how these matters will be resolved through the creation of a “multistakeholder consensus” or through the concatenation of sectional interests which the current description of “multistakeholderism” is presenting as the means by through which outcome decisions are obtained.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Mike </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@1net.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@1net.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alejandro Pisanty<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:22 AM</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><b>To:</b> parminder<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss@1net.org</a>; <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [discuss] Comcast undertakes 9 year IETF cosponsorship!?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Parminder,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>this statement puts in a nutshell what never ceases to amaze me: civil society has gained the most among all sectors from the multistakeholder component of governance, be it Internet, finance, or the environment. We from civil society have broken silos and gained a global voice and unparallelled global influence, often paired with influence inside our countries.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Yet the position you present reverts power to governments only - e.g. through the demand of public funding and the exclusion of private funding; the same governments most civil society is at odds with (admittedly in very different ways and levels.) <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I continue to find it incredibly paradoxal to have civil society leading the effort to braid the rope with which governments would gladly hang us.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Another perplexing element of this discourse is calling the effective, open, evolvable, broadly participatory and open multistakeholder processes undemocratic and the multilateral and governmental "democratic", when maybe two thirds of the world population do not consider their condition democratic. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The remedy to the thick suspicionism of yours and colleagues - after stating lack of knowledge of the organizations and matters beign spoken of - is not doing away with the multistakeholder component in favor of the governmental or multilateral, but optimizing the combined contributions they can make. ICANN-as-a-laboratory provides a lot of learning in this respect, wasted by not being studied enough. And the whole framework is vital for the NTIA functional substitution problem to hand, which these discussions have long drifted away from.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Alejandro Pisanty<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:59 AM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>This is what IETF's own RFC 3869 says</span><o:p></o:p></p><pre>"The principal thesis of this document is that if commercial funding is the main source of funding for future Internet research, the future of the Internet infrastructure could be in trouble. <o:p></o:p></pre><pre> In addition to issues about which projects are funded, the funding source can also affect the content of the research, for example, towards or against the development of open standards, or taking<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> varying degrees of care about the effect of the developed protocols on the other traffic on the Internet."<o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><br>It is important to recognise that research is not a monopoly function, but governance definitionally is. So, if commercial funding can distort Internet research, it is but obviously that it has to be an absolute no no for governance functions (standards making for something as socially important today as the Internet, in absence of any further neutral public oversight constitutes a governance function). <br><br>parminder </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Sunday 23 March 2014 07:04 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Hash: SHA1<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Michael,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>On 03/23/2014 01:23 AM, michael gurstein wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>I personally have no idea whether what you folks and your compadres<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>do/come up with is as pure as todays snowfall up on Grouse<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Mountain--or not. But the absence of a recognition of what is<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>expected of you in terms of (at least formal) accountability and<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>transparency and what those expectations imply is, as I said to<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>John, I think a rather significant problem.<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre>Actually you said you didn't know how the IETF works.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>And I said that the sponsorship stuff is public. And<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>all the mailing list traffic is public and open to all.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>I really think you're in the arena of FUD in terms of<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>how your concern absolutely does not apply in the IETF<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>context.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>But yet again - if you or someone is concerned go look<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>at the facts in the public record and then come back.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>I am entirely sure that if something interesting were<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>found there the IETF would discuss it to death in the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>same manner we do with almost everything. But I'm also<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>pretty confident that such an examination of the IETF<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>if done fairly would actually not show up such a problem.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>So the situation is that you don't know how the IETF works.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>And the IETF does (I claim, knowing something about it, but<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>anyone can verify) act transparently with accountability.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>The problem it seems to me is with the first sentence in<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>this paragraph.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>S.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTLjoiAAoJEC88hzaAX42iYSYIAJONSRxs7HHtOvg+LczrOc/K<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>i5MgKMrCJhvC8jns6S4UnFeo02bJvU+ZVdzDMnUG6uPG6pNdu/eJKBUkQ2FCjPUF<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>6Sh6bchj4GZfZIqEEktvtAvexOjgztBXaUgqAw3j48dcTCsb8QZA3FAL4ymg68ol<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>fhTEyv/WQ5Ss9Iju00wbKoFLunKWfzY1M2ffZOUQ2DrBY7W2GWOoPvgBgdjHkpDy<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Pfyl8jNkpvTc0JVHCd7JleZ0YnbsxNs/HHBWXlH9FfwV3GD7ZnZFaKiWFR0/lh/b<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>EnOS1Q9JWeYV/F9f6QxuKQmBSlxq2b/syPUgfsFja/UWs6hCxslKj7Z3foBBkoo=<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>=eajt<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>discuss mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss@1net.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br>_______________________________________________<br>discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss@1net.org</a><br><a href="http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-- <br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br> Dr. Alejandro Pisanty<br>Facultad de Qu�mica UNAM<br>Av. 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