<div><div dir="auto">Thanks for sharing Milton!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">ICANN seems adamant about using the terms on a context to context basis given the new proposed path forward, also shared in two webinars this month.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Even though NCSG in the past year as far as I’ve seen, has been pushing for not using the word from the start, it seems we might have to actively work on mitigating the risk of its use in a more structurally biased way.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I’m keeping an eye out for any developments on the consultation phase (even though I would have preferred a formal public comment phase instead), but would also invite that we all have a discussion about the proposed way forward by ICANN, more meticulously and collectively.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elsa</div><div dir="auto">—</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 5:59 PM Mueller, Milton L <<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu">milton@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was reading some scholarly literature about public service broadcasting and came across this statement from a GigaNet colleague, Yik Chin:
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<p class="MsoNormal">“The Constitution of the PRC indeed speaks the language of the Public Interest (PI), and the term regularly appears in legal provisions without definition. There have been no juridical interpretations of ‘PI’, either. This ambiguity gives
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Milton L Mueller<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">--<br><br>Elsa Saade<br>Consultant</div></div><div>Gulf Centre for Human Rights</div><div>Twitter: @Elsa_Saade</div></div></div></div></div>