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On Saturday 07 April 2012 09:56 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
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Brigner moved from MPAA to ISOC. Interesting move :-)))
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And before that he was at Verizon, emphatically opposing network
neutrality. I am not sure what does ISOC see itself as, I mean what
kind of organisation, based on what kind of principles. After all, it
is often accepted as the face of the technical community by policy
forums like IGF, CSTD, OECD etc. <br>
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It is this new age, completely unprincipled take on public interest
engagements with policy forums that I find very problematic and
distressing (continuing from the issues raised in exchanges with John
Curran on the the Broadband Commission). We are losing the basic norms
and values of democratic public life, and the IG civil society seem
least bothered about this erosion. Somehow, only one 'principle' is
sacrosant, multistakeholderism, which too, interestingly, its strongest
adherent are always hesitant to get into a real debate about. <br>
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parminder <br>
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Happy Easter
Wolfgang
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