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<font face="Verdana">For a long time I have believed, and in fact
still do, that a transnational system of naming, numbering, and
routing of Internet traffic, which does not fully map on to
sovereign boundaries, is an excellent check on the national
state's inherent tendency to use possible controls on a nation's
informational space for illegitimate purposes. However, for this
purpose, that particular transnational system has to be fair and
just, and democratic. And since nothing is perfect, it should at
least show marked tendencies in the direction of becoming fair,
just and democratic. The problem however is that the current
transnational system - managed by the ICANN family of institutions
- and of course under significant US control - shows no such signs
of becoming what it needs to become, ie fair, just and democratic.
<br>
<br>
Developing countries, including India, have for decades been
crying hoarse, pleading, 'please, become more fair and
democratic...'. Such appeals get the most humiliating responses -
from a stony silence, to, well, 'we made the Internet, and so
have some regard and patience'. India, and some others like
Brazil, at least must be credited for being extremely patient and
conciliatory. (I sometime marvel how </font><font face="Verdana">they
have been so </font><font face="Verdana">patient .) But all this
to no avail. The hegemony stays unshaken, just gets more and more
strengthened by the day.... (Unfortunately, most of, what goes in
the name of, civil society in the IG space has consistently
supported this hegemony, *for all practical purposes* but let me
not digress.)<br>
<br>
In the circumstances, I think that any self respecting country has
no other option but to say, ok, if you just refuse to budge on the
international regime, let the sovereign countries do these things
themselves - meaning, naming, numbering, and routing processes.
The rule of democratic law must apply, and if it cannot apply
through international regimes, then let it be through separate
national ones. That is what the India proposal is about. As I
said, I still think that a positive tension between a (fair and
democratic) transnational system and a more close-to-things and
implementable national one is the best thing in this space, is
best for the Internet, generally, speaking. But if those who squat
in the positions of power and control over the current global
regime (see Just Net Coalition's <a
href="http://www.itu.int/en/plenipotentiary/2014/Documents/ITU_PP_2014_Stmt2.pdf">latest
statement</a> ) simply refuse to hear, I think that it is
absolutely fair for a country like India to bring such a
resolution to any appropriate global governance forum, as it has
to the ITU Plenipotentiary. In fact it wont be doing its duty if
it were not to so such a thing. <br>
<br>
I hope more countries back this resolution, and it serves to
create positive tension vis a vis the current unacceptable global
regime, out of which contestation something good, which is the
best for the global public interest comes out..<br>
<br>
parminder<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Monday 27 October 2014 03:28 AM,
michael gurstein wrote:<br>
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[MG>] this one seems to be causing a fair amount of
controversy with many of the Status Quo-ists going
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<p>instructs the Secretary General <br>
1 to collaborate with all stakeholders including International
and intergovernmental organizations, involved in IP addresses
management to develop an IP address plan from which IP
addresses of different countries are easily discernible and
coordinate to ensure distribution of IP addresses accordingly;
<br>
2 to collaborate with all the concerned stakeholders including
International and intergovernmental organizations to develop
policies for allocation, assignment and management of IP
resources including naming, numbering and addressing which is
systematic, equitable, fair, just, democratic and transparent
and need to be adhered to by entities designated with the
responsibilities of allocating or assigning resources and
dealing with day-to-day technical and operational matters; <br>
3 to prepare reference plan for current and future telecom
networks that addresses concerns of Member States including
safety, robustness, resilience, routing in normal and
exceptional cases and provide guidance on technical
capabilities to developing countries; <br>
4 to develop and recommend public telecom network architecture
which ensures effectively that address resolution for the
traffic meant for the country, traffic originating and
terminating in the country/region takes place within the
country; <br>
5 to develop and recommend public telecom network architecture
which ensures that effectively the traffic meant for the
country, traffic originating and terminating in the country
remains within the country; <br>
6 to develop and recommend a routing plan of traffic for
optimizing the network resources that could effectively ensure
the traceability of communication; <br>
7 to collaborate with all stakeholders involved in studying
the weaknesses of present protocols used in telecom networks
and develop and recommend secure, robust and tamper proof
protocols to meet the requirements of future networks in view
of the envisaged manifold increase in traffic and end devices
in near future in the light of IoT and M2M needs; <br>
8 to submit an annual report on above to the ITU council.<o:p></o:p></p>
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