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Re: Montevideo statement

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 07 October 2013 22:51 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 01:34:58AM +0300,
 IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org> wrote 
 a message of 10 lines which said:

> I wanted to send a link to a statement that Russ and I signed as a part of a meeting that we held last week with the leaders of other Internet organisations.
> 
> http://www.internetsociety.org/news/montevideo-statement-future-internet-cooperation

> They expressed strong concern over the undermining of the trust and
> confidence of Internet users globally due to recent revelations of
> pervasive monitoring and surveillance.

This wording is surprising. It looks like it is the revelations that
undermined confidence, and not the NSA actions. I would prefer
something like, to avoid shooting the messenger:

They expressed strong concern over the undermining of the trust and
confidence of Internet users globally, due to pervasive monitoring and
surveillance by powerful actor(s).

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