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At 09:51 22/09/2013, parminder wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">One would like to know on what
basis is a IG process called 'global'. This has to be judged on the
criterion of impact and not on who is allowed to participate.
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Yes!<br><br>
Two additions and a comment however.<br><br>
1. --- <br><br>
This should also be considered along the criterion of the process
documentation. If you refer to the Greeks, “Themis” is the law of the
gods, “Nomos” the law of the City, and “Patria” the family law. Athenian
democracy's pride was that it had the capacity to produce nomos that were
accepted by all, rather than to extend the king's patria to the city.
<br><br>
The dispute between Plato and Aristotle, which is the lasting
philosophical fundamental debate that every period tries to address
better, is about our access to and control of the reality outside of our
“cave”. <br><br>
Gods' Themis was a response that actually Aristotle found illogical
because he concluded to God but not to gods. For more than two thousand
years many have worked hard to replace the law of the gods by natural law
and the gods' decrees by science. This is why today we are starting to
creep out of the cave because we can face the world we build with a
more complete and machine facilitated logic (we are just recovering from
identifying its n-body dynamic complexity - after having found in the
process that reality was deterministically chaotic and has an agoric
generalization we are to work on) where we refer ourselves and the
Internet Governance to:<br>
- <u>norms</u> (reality apparent normality), <br>
- <u>standards</u> (what we want to do with/within that normality), <br>
- and <u>best practices</u> (how to reduce abnormality).<br><br>
This is why the current cyber-colonization and its counterwars are
normative, through what is called the standards “internationalization”
(by the dominant industries), and a firm “pacification” through firm best
practices with the “sustainable development” alibi of the sometimes
forgotten “millennium objectives”.<br><br>
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2. ---<br><br>
In addition, there is a polylinguistic semantic miscomprehension about
the word "global" that means:<br><br>
<a name="global__4"></a>- in English/American: either (1) relating to the
whole world; worldwide, or (2) relating to or encompassing the whole of
something, or of a group of things which is the meaning that is being
used in computing, i.e. "a global search on Google". <br>
- In French, "global" means "all" roughly considered,
i.e. is limited to the second meaning and includes the idea that one is
not going to consider the internal details. It, therefore, translates to
"overall" or "comprehensive". <br><br>
The French "global" is, therefore, more than the sum of the
multistakeholderist parties but does not consider, at this stage, the
detail of the reasons of this more; while the Anglo/American
"global" word strictly equals the sum of the parties and seeks
to look into the detail of its multistakeholderism. Most of the problem
we meet because the difference is the "more" that results from
multistakeholderism, i.e. enhanced cooperation. While the French language
implies the “addition” (the “plus”) of enhanced cooperation as a
solution, the American language implies a reductionist analysis of the
parties to correctly assess the problem to solve. <br><br>
Once one understands this, one can go the usual way wherein we had to
address this issue by using <br>
- "international" as a synonym for the first meaning<br>
- and "universal" as a synonym for the second meaning.
<br><br>
This why we have:<br>
- "UTC", which is a deliberate Anglo-French acronym for
"Coordinated universal time - CUT" and "Temps coordoné
universel - TCU"<br>
- "URLs", which are universal as they can be retrieved through
"global searches",<br>
- and we created the "international network" (InterNet) that
started under the Tymnet technology, while the ARPANET architecture
adopted Louis Pouzin's catenet (network concatenation) approach
("networks of networks")
<a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien48.txt">
http://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien48.txt</a> through the IETF TCP/IP
“interneting” architecture until it commercially became a universal
alternative to the other two Tymnet and X25/X.75 universal architectures
up to the point that (31 USC 5362 (5)) the term Internet legally means
the international computer network of interoperable packet switched data
networks. This is a "nomos" definition that will probably
remain through practice, even though its technical "patria"
progressively changed from a unique source (IETF) to a multi-(hopefully
cooperating)-source technology that is still mainly documented within the
OpenStand framework and the OpenUse one to emerge.<br><br>
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Comment ---<br><br>
Sorry for these key "details", but what we are experiencing
with the global financial crisis (a digital evolution fall-out) is that
reality is not decided by technical gurus or speculators, but rather by
reality's deterministic chaos universal laws that we humans can globally
influence to a point. <br><br>
- That point is scientifically named "criticality" (as in
atomic bombs). It happens after the salience of a
"singularity", i.e. a no-return point (cf. Mathematical theory
of catastrophes).<br>
- Precaution means to delay or avoid singularity if one cannot hope to
positively use criticality. This is where human liberty is. If we
deliberately decide not to be intelligent (i.e. in phase with reality),
as we do with pollution, for example, we will not be in control of what
may happen. Usually, global load rebalancing leads to a new status of the
world, as we experienced 80 years ago (1929–2008) when we learned about
human political global criticality.<br><br>
<a name="_GoBack"></a>The Edward Snowden case is indubitably a global
singularity: when everyone realizes as to what we have developed is truly
all about (wanting to know about reality, means knowing about everyone’s
reality). This is a good warning about the "intelligence shock"
that will be the coming "singularity" that has been announced
by many, e.g. Raymond Kurzweil who tries to make the best of it for
Google (the hope of making the computer global universal).<br>
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