<div dir="ltr">@John: just to remind you that you started this discussion.<div><br></div><div>-ed</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:47 PM John R. Levine <<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com">johnl@iecc.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> Were this community to spend as much effort on discussing ICANN policy as<br class="gmail_msg">
> it does on slogans, brochures, rules&procedures and the status of Puerto<br class="gmail_msg">
> Rico, we'd actually have something of value to offer those who come here<br class="gmail_msg">
> through all those outreach and fellowship programs.<br class="gmail_msg">
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No kidding. I was about to point out much the same thing, that the ALAC<br class="gmail_msg">
has long been plagued by people with quixotic agendas unrelated to<br class="gmail_msg">
anything that ICANN might or might not do.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Regards,<br class="gmail_msg">
John Levine, <a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">johnl@iecc.com</a>, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",<br class="gmail_msg">
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