A very thoughtful article from Milton's blog for your information. Follow the link. We are still at sixes and sevens on this issue but we continue to hope further explorations with the GAC presents a slight opening for consensus to change. FWIW, I share Milton's concerns and his outlook. Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround ============================= *From:* Milton L Mueller [mailto:mueller@syr.edu] *Sent:* Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:14 AM *To:* NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU *Cc:* governance@lists.cpsr.org *Subject:* [governance] An important discussion o free expression at the ICANN meeting http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2010/6/23/4560694.html Milton Mueller Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology ------------------------------ Internet Governance Project: http://internetgovernance.org