<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Richard,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think we agree.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Enhanced cooperation” was, as far as certain EU folk were concerned, about a group of states cooperating independently of the US.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In that context the US would of course choose a different interpretation. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So of course there was, and perhaps is, scope for inherent disagreement.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gordon</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Dec 2016, at 17:19, Richard Hill <<a href="mailto:rhill@hill-a.ch" class="">rhill@hill-a.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dear Gordon</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for this. As you may recall, I was a member of the WSIS secretariat when the text in question was negotiated and I was involved in the discussions. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As I recall, the term "enhanced coordination" was used as a an euphemism for "end unilateral US control of Internet governance in general and of ICANN and IANA in particular".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, after the text was agreed, there was disagreement regarding its intent: as I recall, the USA took the view that the intent was to encourage more cooperation amongst UN agencies and between those agencies and other Internet governance bodies such as ICANN.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But others might have different recollections. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Richard</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757" class="">Sent from Samsung Mobile.</div></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>