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At 01:41 23/09/2010, Sylvia Caras wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">This seems to me a subset of the
governance and standards question,<br>
and my sense of unintended consequences of software is stronger than<br>
this author's.</blockquote><br>
Sylvia,<br><br>
this is not a governance but an adminance issue. Adminance is the
administration, maintenance, and delivery of the technological means that
Governance needs. It was not considered by the WSIS and is progressively
understood in real life. The true war and crimes against humanity are
carried at the adminance level because, through standards orientation and
acceptance, this is where the possible (good or bad) future is decided.
In this case the discussion is about true weapons. At the IETF one
discusses standards which will influence the world ability to live better
or not, and in this way will condition the life of billion of people -
without any democratic supervision.
<dl>
<dd>RFC 3935: "The mission of the IETF is to produce high quality,
relevant technical and engineering documents that influence the way
people design, use, and manage the Internet in such a way as to make the
Internet work better. [...] The Internet isn't value-neutral, and
neither is the IETF. We want the Internet to be useful for
communities that share our commitment to openness and fairness. We
embrace technical concepts such as decentralized control, edge-user
empowerment and sharing of resources, because those concepts resonate
with the core values of the IETF community. These concepts have
little to do with the technology that's possible, and much to do with the
technology that we choose to create."
</dl>This is why the true "core values of the Internet"
("the constitution is in the code") have been
"chosen" by IETF to "influence" the Governance in
such a way as to make the Internet work "better" : <br>
what does that "better" mean? For who? According to who?
<br><br>
This is why the practical possibility to ethically use of the Internet or
not has been decided a long ago without ethical consideration when
researching the Internet technology with a commercial bias, as documented
by RFC 3869 of IAB.
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<dd>RFC 3869 states: "The principal thesis of this document is that
if commercial funding is the main source of funding for future Internet
research, the future of the Internet infrastructure could be in
trouble. In addition to issues about which projects are funded, the
funding source can also affect the content of the research, for example,
towards or against the development of open standards, or taking varying
degrees of care about the effect of the developed protocols on the other
traffic on the Internet."
</dl>The question could also be: how many people die everyday that a
better Internet technology, a better Internet adminance, a better
Internet Governance and/or a better Internet neutrality might have
directly or indirectly helped to save ?<br><br>
This is the true issue of all the WSIS/IGF discussions and the shared
responsibility of lists such as this one.<br><br>
Best<br>
jfc<br>
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