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China's creating a national Internet model based on the requirements
of its authoritarian political system is in my view at least partly
a failure of enough and appropriate global governance of the
Internet. Well, I dont necessarily mean that China could have been
deterred from this path, but its acts could have certainly been made
less politically justifiable if we have sat together early to
develop common global principles for the global Internet, a task
that the dominant global players have constantly shirked from (with
a fear of losing their dominance).<br>
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Further, a bigger danger now is that a lot of other countries,
importantly, also the non authoritarian ones, can be expected to
cosy up to China and try to replicate its Internet model, which
while being authoritarian does have other positive aspects over the
dominate global Internet (as the referred article suggests). The
wholesale rebuff given to the developing countries at WCIT in
developed country's refusal to sign a 'harmless' and 'toothless' new
ITRs and thus signalling perhaps a withdrawal from multilateral
governance systems in the IG realm would have long term impacts.
When those who dominate the current global Internet governance
realms (US unilateralism, and various kinds of rich county
plurilateralisms) are increasingly clear that they have no
intentions to include developing countries, expect at their own
terms (like seeking accession to treaties after they have been
negotiated among the rich nations) what do you expect the developing
countries to do? this is a question that those in the civil society
who have consistently sided with the undemocratic dominant global IG
realms must respond to. <br>
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Is not their perhaps unthinkingly partisan stand considerably
responsible for the path that we may see these other developing
countries (non China, Iran etc) go, possibly towards, what may
appear to be, the rather attractive Chinese model of Internet. <br>
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Would it not have been better to listen to and accommodate the
genuine concerns that developing countries may have had on issues
like broadband models, security, spam etc at WCIT and/ or other at
democratic global forums? So many of the supporters of the current
dominant global IG models seem to think that they can keep actors
from developing countries 'selectively incentivised' or perhaps even
confused and fooled forever, which is really not a sustainable
model. It will fail much sooner than its promoters think it will. <br>
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Instead, lets recognise people's and countries' democratic
aspirations and real governance needs, and come with good faith to
the global IG table. Lets start with trying to agree on some highest
principles for the global governance of the Internet in public
interest, and also get down to trying to work out agreements on
areas like net neutrality, freedom of expression and association,
regulation of global Internet business, tax on global e-commerce,
security, spam, IPv6 implementation and so on. If we refuse to float
together we will sink separately; I mean all others than the most
powerful 1 percent (although I think the number is closer to 8-15
percent, I will go with the currently in vogue percentage. :) ) <br>
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The forthcoming meetings of the UN Working Group on Enhanced
Cooperation is a good opportunity to pull our head out of the sand
and make some positive contributions. A lot depends on what
position civil society will take, becuase it is the civil society
that is supposed to come up with higher value based positions in
favour of larger public interest; something which is very much
needed in the current stalemate arising from dominant actors on all
sides sticking to narrow partisan interest based positions.<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 12 March 2013 08:45 PM,
Peter H. Hellmonds wrote:<br>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Mike,</div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">you post a link to
an article without making a commentary as to whether you endorse
the views expressed or not. What are your opinions on this?</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Here are some of my
preliminary observations and remarks, based on a quick reading
of the article but not on a comprehensive study of the
underlying paper. </div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Key in this article,
and perhaps one of the reasons why the West is hesitant about
some of these advances would be this part sentence from the
article:</div>
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<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"</span><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is the basis for a system that
monitors and controls traffic flow over the internet [...]."</span></div>
<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">While I know
that telco operators need to monitor and control traffic in
order to assure that there is no traffic congestion
(especially on mobile networks), they do this without regard
for the specific content (instead rather based on content
classes or protocols), whereas if you combine monitoring and
control with content filtering (as the article claims "</span><span
style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">to block
malicious traffic as a whole"), then there is a not just
remote possibility that this could be abused in a way contrary
to the open and free Internet.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Add
to this the notion of "</span><font color="#000000"><span
style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1987/20120387"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
text-decoration: none; ">China's advances in creating a
next-generation internet</a> that is on a national level",
then you also add a certain level of fragmentation to the
net that counters the end-to-end principle of the net. </span></font><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>
</span><br>
Finally, <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Source
Address Validation Architecture (SAVA) could be abused by
tracing and tracking of users which would make anonymous
access to information or anonymous sharing and expression of
information impossible. Right now, proxies and VPNs allow for
such things but if a network of trusted computers maintains a
database of computers and their IP addresses, then masking
one's identity might become impossible, with all its
consequences. </span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Just my 2 cents on this. <br>
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On 12.03.2013, at 15:48, "michael gurstein" <<a
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