<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 1, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Bertrand de La Chapelle <<a href="mailto:bdelachapelle@gmail.com">bdelachapelle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style=""><font color="#333333" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#333333" face="Verdana">During the last few months, three conferences (IGF, WCIT, WSIS+10) have helped clarify the landscape:</font></div>
<div style=""><ul style=""><li style=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana">the existing Internet institutional ecosystem (RIRs, standards bodies like IETF or W3C, ICANN, etc...) is dealing in a distributed manner with the governance OF the Internet, but does not (and should not) provide a venue for issues related to the governance ON the Internet (privacy, freedom of expression, copyright, security, etc...)</span></li></ul></div></div></blockquote>Bertrand - </div><div><br></div><div> Apologies for a very belated reply, but I've been thinking about the above text and </div><div> wondering if there is a fundamental difference between "dealing in a distributed </div><div> manner with the governance OF the Internet" and "a venue for issues related to the </div><div> governance ON the Internet", and if, as a result, we in the community are making a</div><div> significant mistake in referring to both on occasions as "Internet Governance"...</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimers: My views alone. The term "Internet" in the above refers to the unique</div><div> global communications capability based upon the "Internet Protocol."</div><div> (both versions :-)</div></body></html>