<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;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 26, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Sam Lanfranco <<a href="mailto:Lanfran@yorku.ca" class="">Lanfran@yorku.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">According to Fadi’s comments in New York (see: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://youtu.be/huI6PucrL7c" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">http://youtu.be/huI6PucrL7c</a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) the WEF is no longer involved in NMI, but is pursuing its own WEF events, linked initial to European Internet privacy concerns. Now NMI is apparently completely independent of WEF. I raise this because the Internet Governance Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) letter to the NMI Transitional Council, as currently written seems not to reflect this change in engagement in the NMI.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></o:p><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="">Just a brief correction for the record. There have always been two tracks of activity. One is WEF’s regular activities, its Strategic Dialogues for its members at its meetings and such. The other is the NMI, which is joint with <a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a> and ICANN. Fadi was referring to the first of these. He confuses people with intermingled references sometimes, which given the larger confusion over the scope of the activity (irrespective of anything NMI says on the website etc) and modalities has proven to be rather unhelpful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div></body></html>