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Re: De-funding the ITU

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (james jones)
Sat Jan 12 22:36:32 2013

In-Reply-To: <CALcVfM0u96BbONTN-=0rnmkDunDTF8sO4ku5+omWis_peQoJdg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:36:20 -0500
From: james jones <james@freedomnet.co.nz>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Saturday, January 12, 2013, james jones wrote:

> And done!
>
> On Saturday, January 12, 2013, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
>>
>> Please consider signing this petition:
>>
>> http://DeFundTheITU.org
>>
>> =85so we can stop paying for both sides of this idiotic fight.  Note tha=
t
>> if the U.S. pulls its funding from the ITU, that's 10%, and if all of th=
e
>> countries that stood with us at the WCIT do so, that would be 74% of the
>> ITU's member revenue.  Those of us who support the Internet are paying f=
or
>> three-quarters of the fight against the Internet.  As Smokey the Bear wo=
uld
>> say, only WE can prevent stupidity.  As Pogo Possum said, "We have met t=
he
>> enemy, and the enemy is us!"  Time to correct that.  Redirect $11M/year
>> from the ITU to Internet governance organizations like the IETF.
>>
>>                                 -Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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