<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>I agree the agenda may be quite ambitious. But I think BR is aiming high.</div><div><br></div><div>--c.a.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:100%">------------<br>C. A. Afonso</div></div> <br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu> <br>Date: 18-10-2013 14:09 (GMT-03:00) <br>To: governance@lists.igcaucus.org,parminder <parminder@itforchange.net>,"Carlos A. Afonso" <ca@cafonso.ca> <br>Cc: Ian Peter <ian.peter@ianpeter.com>,Brenden Kuerbis <bkuerbis@internetgovernance.org>,NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu,bestbits@lists.bestbits.net <br>Subject: RE: [governance] RE: [bestbits] Rousseff & Chehade: Brazil will
host world event on Internet governance in 2014 <br> <br><br>On Thursday 17 October 2013 05:49 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:<br>> Hi, this will not be true at all. The main topic of the meeting will<br>> probably be something like the forms and ways to achieve<br>> pluriparticipative international Internet governance, including, as the<br>> Presidenta said, "an international framework of civil rights for the<br>> Internet".<br>><br>> The "phone list" of the Internet is just a relatively small part of this<br>> huge challenge. If the Icann people think otherwise, they will be in for<br>> a surprise very soon. :)<br><br>Yes, Carlos, but....if the community cannot come together on agreed mechanisms and institutions for global governance of the so-called "phone list" (really bad metaphor, by the way) how is it able to take on larger problems? <br><br>In other words, if we can't do ICANN right, why should anyone think we can do anything else?<br><br>I have always viewed ICANN as a test case of our capabilities for global governance, not as intrinsically interesting in itself.<br><br>Therefore, I do not agree with more ambitious agendas - or at least, the more ambitious issues might be discussed, but only if we are able to develop and apply a workable solution to the more immediate and simpler problem (ICANN).<br><br></body>