<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Sigh</div>
<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 29, 2016, at 21:36, Mueller, Milton L <<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu" class="">milton@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; display: inline !important; float: none;" class="">What we opposed was the later effort to institutionalize it from the top down and turn it into an unnecessarily centralized platform for leadership across a wide range of IG issues. We simply don’t need that kind of centralization, and the only reason for doing it was for the small clique of people close to or approved by Fadi, CGI and WEF to capture some kind of leadership role for themselves. Anyway, they failed so the issue is moot</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">There was no attempt to create “a centralized platform for leadership across a wide range of IG issues” and hence no failure to do so. There was some loose talk from Fadi at the outset (in 2014—please adjust your clock) to which everyone else who was involved said no way, and over the next year and half we took it in an entirely different direction. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyone who wants to know what NMI actually is intended to do can look at the website <a href="https://www.netmundial.org" class="">https://www.netmundial.org</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>