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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Please see this article from today's Washington Post, regarding ICANN's relationships with Governments. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Some unfortunate quotes, but gets it right about the need to protect the multi-stakeholder model of ICANN from UN/ITU threat.</span></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><div><div><div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; "><div><span style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; ">"Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit group that oversees </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Internet"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022803719.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022803719.html</a> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div></span></font></div></div><div><div>-- </div><div>Steve DelBianco</div><div>Executive Director</div><div>NetChoice</div><div><a href="http://www.NetChoice.org">http://www.NetChoice.org</a> and <a href="http://blog.netchoice.org">http://blog.netchoice.org</a> </div><div>+1.202.420.7482 </div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></span></body></html>