<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<br class="">
<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 22, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Milton L Mueller <<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" class="">mueller@syr.edu</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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Indeed, if you pay careful attention to ICANN's past 5-8 years you find that the term is most commonly used by the BC and most frequently invoked by GAC, Steve DelBianco and Marilyn Cade, usually to justify policies that we don't support</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">To me this is an argument for contesting and hopefully re-appropriating the term in line with a coherent vision that reflects our values, rather for than dismissing the concept as inherently flawed and to be avoided (which it will not be). This is precisely where civil society should be weighing in forcefully with counter-hegemonic discourse, rather than letting others control things by default because nobody bothers to push back.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div></body></html>