[cooperation-wg] Internet governance

> On 21 nov 2013, at 15:41, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

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> Where is the "running code" when it come to (eg) denying IXPs the right to have provider-independent IPv6 addresses (as was the case for some considerable time).

Leo and Nick addressed this, and I agree with their assessment of the events at the time. 

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>>>> *Square brackets are used in UN contexts to mark text that cannot be agreed on. When I was in the UN CSTD WG on IGF improvements, in the
>>>> first
>>>> round, we failed miserably as a group to agree on anything. Text was being thrown up on the screen, only to immediately be protested by
>>>> someone, and consequently being put in square brackets. At the end of the meeting, the whole document was in square brackets...
>>> 
>>> Of course, the idea is to remove the square brackets, or delete the bracketed text before the end of the meeting. If more than 10% of the
>>> document ever gets (temporarily) in square brackets the whole basis of the meeting, or the motives of the attendees, is thrown into doubt.
>> 
>> No comment.
>> All I'll say is that I have seen this happen many times in that context.
> 
> "No comment". Then a comment? Can we please at least observe the niceties of debate, here.

If there was any sarcasm detected in my tone, it was not aimed at you. 
It was aimed at those attendees whose motives you question (as do I). Maybe I've been unlucky in the meetings I've attended, but I've seen this happen several times, resulting in the discussions collapsing, not leaving me with much faith in that process. 

But we're digressing. 

Nurani



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