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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Dear colleagues,</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">A collection of internet based organizations meet annually to discuss and co-ordinate on internet based issues. This years meeting was in Uruguay and among the topics discussed was
the impact of recent revelation on the Internet Governance ecosystem. (snorden etc�.)</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Ten organisations were represented at this retreat: NRO (AFRINIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE-NCC), ICANN, IANA, ISOC,IETF, IAB, W3C, IANA. </div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">One of the outcomes of this meeting is the declaration found at <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/news/958">http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/news/958</a> </span></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">Uruguay, 8 October 2013</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">The leaders of organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet technical infrastructure globally have met in Montevideo, Uruguay, to consider current issues affecting the future of the Internet.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">The Internet and World Wide Web have brought major benefits in social and economic development worldwide. Both have been built and governed in the public interest through unique mechanisms for global multistakeholder Internet cooperation,
which have been intrinsic to their success. The leaders discussed the clear need to continually strengthen and evolve these mechanisms, in truly substantial ways, to be able to address emerging issues faced by stakeholders in the Internet.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">In this sense:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">-They reinforced the importance of globally coherent Internet operations, and warned against Internet fragmentation at a national </font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">-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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">-They identified the need for ongoing effort to address Internet Governance challenges, and agreed to catalyze community-wide efforts towards the evolution of global multistakeholder Internet cooperation.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">-They called for accelerating the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal footing.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">-They also called for the transition to IPv6 to remain a top priority globally. In particular Internet content providers must serve content with both IPv4 and IPv6 services, in order to be fully reachable on the global Internet.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">Adiel A. Akplogan, CEO </font></div>
<div><font face="Consolas">African Network Information Center (AfriNIC)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">John Curran, CEO </font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">Paul Wilson, Director General </font></div>
<div><font face="Consolas">Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">Russ Housley, Chair </font></div>
<div><font face="Consolas">Internet Architecture Board (IAB)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">Fadi Chehad�, President and CEO</font></div>
<div><font face="Consolas">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">Jari Arkko, Chair </font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO </font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">Ra�l Echeberr�a, CEO </font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">Axel Pawlik, Managing Director</font></div>
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<div><font face="Consolas">Jeff Jaffe, CEO </font></div>
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