<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:04 PM, michael gurstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Ahh… How do we define "Governance of the Internet" <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">And there is the rub, if 20% or so of humanity (say 40-50-60% of all Internet users) is signed up to Facebook.com (or some equivalent numbers for Google.com or mPesa, or …) and .000000001 of humanity is signed up to <a href="http://bollow.ch" target="_blank">bollow.ch</a> then surely "quantity" becomes "quality"</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't see how this follows.</div><div><br></div><div>Will you ask for differenet rules for FB vs <a href="http://bollow.ch">bollow.ch</a>? What about in registering the domain name, different rules?</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> and particularly if activities are undertaken using those applications/built on those platforms that are "necessary" and "exclusive" i.e. they provide services or functions that are necessary and are not easily accessible in any other way.</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have yet to find anything on FB that is "necessary".</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">At that point there is I would think, the need (as a matter of "public interest") for "<i>an organisation who told you what protocols you could and could not use"…</i></span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>At that point, there would need to be a discussion why these "necessary services are on FB and not in the public domain.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
</div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel