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On Friday 07 October 2011 02:44 AM, McTim wrote:
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Except that he wants "major decisions should be taken by a globally
representative forum.", </pre>
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The reference to a 'globally representative forum' is vis a vis the
kind of 'decisions' that OECD, G 8 and G 20 kind of forums take. In
general, for a wiser set of functions we can speak of forums instead of
forum as long as we dont forget the 'globally representative part'. It
is also somewhat amazing how easily how ignore that part - about the
undemocratic nature of global decisions/ policy making in relation to
the Internet. <br>
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<pre wrap="">when in fact, it is multiple fora each making
decisions about their own little corner of the Internet</pre>
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'the little corner' thing is a myth. Most of them make decisions for
the Internet for the whole world, and you know it. <br>
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<pre wrap=""> that has been
the successful model of what we now call Internet governance.
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Successful for whom? That always is 'the' question. Internet's net
neutrality is now increasingly being 'officially' transgressed. What
was a public network of millions of networks, is now increasingly
largely consisting of few mega private spaces. The story can go
on....... parminder <br>
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