<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Malcolm Hutty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:malcolm@linx.net" target="_blank">malcolm@linx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":3qa" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">and I believe that<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline"> </div>as we lose the <font size="4">ultimate protection of the NTIA</font>, the community needs to<br>
put in place the necessary measures to avoid such unhappy consequences</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">All in all, well said, sah! I had imposed on me the role of lurker on this list. But I thought I would extract and emphasize that snippet.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">If memory serves, one fella at the London long table discussion where I represented the ALAC connected the NTIA to the role of protector against all enemies, 'foreign and domestic'; I'm paraphrasing here since he spoke it first but from my intuit, this is the unspoken codicil to the contract. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">I cannot recall any discernible traction then. But I'm yet amazed - yes, amazed - that in all the hand wringing, it is barely recognized that in current dispensation, it is the United States Government, our Uncle Sam, that is, of fact, the ultimate protector against the powers, foreign and domestic, ICANN included.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">What we have here is talk about replacing the tap root. One need not be a fantacist to acknowledge this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">-Carlton</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">==============================</span></div><div><div class="gmail_signature">Carlton A Samuels<br>Mobile: 876-818-1799<br><i><font color="#33CC00">Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround</font></i><br>=============================</div></div>
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