[governance] FW: [liberationtech] Chinese preparing for a "Autonomous Internet" ?

[Riaz K Tayob]

Parminder

Can this issue of the Chinese proposal (whatever its technical merits or 
demerits - which if taken in the context of the debate of a single root 
- is neither here nor there) not be seen as a response to recalcitrance 
of the international community to get a legitimate (and effective) 
governance system? This along the evolutionary path this issue has 
followed from the marginalisation of the importance of CIR at WSIS, to 
IGF-MS and "enhanced" cooperation failing to even raise the issue 
meaningfully (with lots of cheerleaders in civil and uncivil society 
"doing what is possible")...

In other words the problem IS ICANN, and Internet Civil Society 
discourse... In this context, de jure USG "control" over the CIR  of 
"net" the moves by the Chinese are hard to dismiss ethically, unless one 
has some serious tolerance for double standards... or am I getting it 
wrong again?

Riaz

Riaz

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