<p dir="ltr">Alejandro, you are correct in your points. There are plenty of concerns to go around. The larger one, that is the source of the others IMO, remains that NMI remains a largely redundant solution in search of a problem to solve.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This most recent action is simply the latest chapter in the story of NMI's ongoing and desperate search for credibility. This search may indeed address my first point above, if the Chinese involvement in NMI introduces new "problems" to solve... (that the rest of the community may see as not being problems at all...) <br>
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<div>1. China's own "order based" Internet governance, which Minister Lu presented in the NetMundial meeting and Chinese agencies say was praised:</div>
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<div>2. The composition of the Council with two people not only from the same country but working for its government (one directly and one in an organization that provides consultancy and a career path for the government.)</div>
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<div>Maybe Jean-Jacques has some explanations here, as this happened in his presence.</div>
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Thanks for the explanation.<br>
I think a lot of people will be pleased to learn that we don't have<br>
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Your response w.r.t to Chinese reporting also clarifies why Jack Ma's<br>
appointment seems to overshadow the rest of the co-chairs.<br>
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I guess this frees us up to deliberate more on the arbitrary and<br>
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group named", one would think, should not be the subject of such needless confusion.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">But now that THAT's out of the way .... we can get back to the original issue of trying to figure out exactly what problem this organization -- whatever it is called -- is supposed to
non-redundantly solve. ;-) Adding Chinese representation to the mix doesn't magically provide an answer to that question.</div>
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