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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Milton Mueller has penned an interesting piece taking issue with the letter:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://www.internetgovernance.org/2023/08/22/the-technical-community-and-internet-governance-a-response-to-the-costerton-curran-wilson-letter/">https://www.internetgovernance.org/2023/08/22/the-technical-community-and-internet-governance-a-response-to-the-costerton-curran-wilson-letter/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 22 August 2023 at 09:44<br>
<b>To: </b>Cooperation WG <cooperation-wg@ripe.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>ICANN and Others Upset Again<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">ICANN, ARIN and APNIC seem to be upset with the UN:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-global-digital-compact-a-top-down-attempt-to-minimize-the-role-of-the-technical-community-21-08-2023-en">https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-global-digital-compact-a-top-down-attempt-to-minimize-the-role-of-the-technical-community-21-08-2023-en</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What�s notable is the absence of any of the other RIRs, which leads me to think that they probably don�t support the position
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Also if the statements from the UN representative were such an affront why did it take them two months to pen this rather
ridiculous blog post which reads like them whinging about not being taken seriously enough�
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