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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>We recognise the Internet to be a global network of networks comprised of computing devices and processes, and an emergent and emerging social reality. In that sense, it is an intricate combination of hardware, software, protocols,
and human intentionality enabling new kinds of social interactions and transactions, brought together by a common set of design principles, and policies established through due democratic processes.
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-right:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] assuming that historical accuracy matters, and depending on what “policies” one is referring to, I don’t think “democratic” process
was involved in the origin of the internet at all. The IETF developers were meritocratic, not democratic.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>The design principles and policies that constitute its governance ensure its stability, functionality and security, and aim at preserving and enhancing the global commons and global public good character of the Internet the combination
of which has made previous innovations possible. Therefore, in the face of the growing danger for the Internet experience to be reduced to closed or
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-right:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] yes, but they are also, and should be also, aim at preserving and enhancing the private good aspects of the Internet. As the success
of the internet rests on a creative combination of both, why are we emphasizing only one aspect of this?
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>proprietary online spaces, we urge that the preservation and enhancement of the Internet's global commons and public good dimensions</b><b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-right:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] what are these dimensions? Why not specify them? Why not also recognize that we should not interfere with the innovation and creativity
that has come from affording entrepreneurs and individuals to experiment and innovate with new private services?
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