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<font face="Verdana">Jeremy<br>
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Sorry, saw your email after I sent my amendments to Ian's text.
But i think the amendments address all your concerns. We do not
elevate design principles to any transcedent moral value but such
principles 'should' be derived through due democratic processes.
Also they do not automatically get considered as enhancing
commons/ public good character of the Internet but 'must' aim at
doing so.<br>
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The text as amended by me is as follows<br>
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<font face="Verdana"><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. The design principles and policies that
constitute its governance {should be derived through due
democratic processes, and must} 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 proprietary
online spaces, we urge the preservation and enhancement of the
Internet's global commons and public good dimensions."<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 24 April 2013 06:44 AM,
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<div>On 24/04/2013, at 8:02 AM, Ian Peter <<a
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"><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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>The
design principles and policies that constitute
its governance 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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></b><b>proprietary
online spaces, we urge the preservation and
enhancement of the Internet's global commons and
public good dimensions.</b></div>
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<div>Sorry to bring this up late, but I don't like the
reductionist definition of Internet governance that is implicit
in the mention of its design principles and policies. The
design principles of the Internet have no transcendent moral
value of their own, they are just technical choices which do
not, in themselves, have any legitimacy that we can convincingly
justify. As Milton pointed out, the IETF is not a democracy,
it's a meritocracy. More broadly, the Internet's design
principles are not justifiable as an outcome of any democratic
(still less globally democratic) process.</div>
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Mostly those choices are favourable for our underlying values such
as freedom of expression and (less often) privacy, but
sometimes they are not. So we cannot elevate the design
principles of the Internet to such a privileged position, when if
different technical choices had been made in the beginning some of
the Internet's acknowledged problems that exist today (spam,
phishing, etc) could have been less. The Internet's design
principles may be good for advancing particular policies, but they
may also be bad, or they may be indifferent. I don't think that
those principles can be said to "aim" at anything in particular,
other than technical soundness, nor that they can sensibly be
described as a "common set".
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