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Re: Bad/Good ideas and damage control by experienced participants

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Thu, 23 June 2022 17:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: Bad/Good ideas and damage control by experienced participants
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It appears that S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> said:
>> The is a research article [1] which discusses a "club good approach"
>> viewed through the IETF process. ...
>> 1. http://r.elandsys.com/r/70978
Thanks for the pointer - it does provide a rather good perspective on 
Internet governance.

Miles Fidelman

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