<div dir="ltr">Interesting, I would have said 'Really Paul?' but let us move on....I could talk about silverbacks but I will not. So Norbert let me add my +1 We agree to disagree.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Norbert Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nhklein@gmx.net" target="_blank">nhklein@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Norbert Klein</p>
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Paul Rosenzweig
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you believe the Board when it promises that the
accountability changes will happen no matter what the
transition?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">MM:
Mostly, Paul, I don’t believe you or other opponents of the
transition when they say they favor a transition but want it
delayed. As you know, I don’t believe a period of abeyance
is a viable option. If the transition is shot down during
this administration and we have to wait for a new one,
everything we have agreed to do as part of the transition is
up in the air. It could all be completely changed by a new
NTIA head giving us new criteria, or a new Congress passing
new restrictions or requirements in order to appeal to
deluded and uninformed rightwing constituencies. Whatever
happens would depend entirely on U.S. domestic politics.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I
also know that many aspects of the revised bylaws simply
cannot go into effect until the NTIA contract is gone, so
disrupting that effectively sends us back to the drawing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">You
know this as well as I do, Paul, please stop being
disingenuous about your support for the transition. As far
as I can tell, you want the US government to stay in control
of the DNS. Full stop. If that’s not true, I look forward to
seeing Heritage as an organization or you as an individual
publicly challenge the dishonest and manipulative statements
issued by Senator Cruz and WSJ columnist L. Gordon Crovitz.
It seems you want to have it both ways, feign support for
the transition but align yourself with irrational
politicians who are seizing on this issue to fearmonger,
whip up nationalistic fervor and attack the Obama
administration for purely partisan purposes. Time to
distance yourself from that nonsense, else completely lose
credibility in this group.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Dr.
Milton L Mueller<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Professor,
<a href="http://spp.gatech.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">School of Public Policy</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Georgia
Institute of Technology<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Internet
Governance Project
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://internetgovernance.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">http://internetgovernance.org/</span></a>
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