<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Listers,<br><br></div>This is for your information and attention.<br><br></div>Best Regards<br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Joly MacFie</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com">joly@punkcast.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:57 AM<br>Subject: [Internet Policy] TRUMP BACKS INTERNET GOVERNANCE DIALOGUE IN 2018 BUDGET PROPOSAL<br>To: "<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:InternetPolicy@elists.isoc.org">InternetPolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">(via Mark Buell) </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><a href="https://www.bna.com/trump-backs-internet-b57982085284/" target="_blank">https://www.bna.com/trump-<wbr>backs-internet-b57982085284/</a><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1.0625rem;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(86,90,92);font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">President Donald Trump wants to cut funding for a number of federal agencies, departments and programs under a 2018 <a href="http://src.bna.com/m1N" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,67,134);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">budget blueprint</a> released March 16. But the U.S. presence in global internet governance discussions is one thing that Trump says he won’t cut.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1.0625rem;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(86,90,92);font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif">According to the proposal, the Trump administration will continue supporting the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s participation in “multi-stakeholder forums” on internet governance and digital commerce.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1.0625rem;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(86,90,92);font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:1.0625rem"><snip></span><br></p></div><div><div style="font-size:small">​* NTIA head + deputy posts still vacant <a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/offices" target="_blank">https://www.ntia.doc.gov/<wbr>offices</a>​</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div class="m_-8326557351754003880gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>---<br><span>Joly MacFie  <span title="Call with Google Voice"><span id="m_-8326557351754003880gmail-gc-number-189" class="m_-8326557351754003880gmail-gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice"><span id="m_-8326557351754003880gmail-gc-number-190" class="m_-8326557351754003880gmail-gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice"><span id="m_-8326557351754003880gmail-gc-number-191" class="m_-8326557351754003880gmail-gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice"><span id="m_-8326557351754003880gc-number-192" class="m_-8326557351754003880gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span></span></span></span></span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--<br>-</div></div></div>
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