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On 4/02/2015 4:51 am, parminder wrote:<br>
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<font face="Verdana">I see both you and Avri say that some things
need inter gov and some MS systems, to which I agree. But that
brings us to the main point that I have been trying to stress;
it of course cannot be left to the (situational) fancy of
people, groups and institutions which issues and when should be
addressed by one form of governance structure and which/when the
other.</font></blockquote>
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The NETmundial Principles lead to exactly this conclusion when
saying "The respective roles and responsibilities of stakeholders
should be interpreted in a flexible manner with reference to the
issue under discussion."<br>
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You're right that this opens up a separate can of worms as to how
the roles should be divided—eg. is this a decision-taking role for
governments or not. I tackled this directly in my submission to
NETmundial:<br>
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<p> A less simplistic approach requires a case-by-case analysis:
whenever the coordinating function as described in the Best Bits
submission is exercised, it should consider not only <em>whether</em>
and <em>where</em> policy is being developed, but also what the
appropriate roles of stakeholders are <em>for that issue</em>.
Factors relevant to that determination include agreed high-level
global Internet governance principles (if any), roles and
responsibilities historically exercised in respect of that
issue, and the governance mechanisms that are likely to be
effective in dealing with the issue.</p>
<p>To give some possible examples, it may be found that
governments are entitled to take a leading role in developing
global rules on money laundering via the Internet, but that they
should take a back seat in the development of spam filtering
standards, and should participate as equals with other
stakeholders in the development of policy for transnational
intellectual property enforcement policies.</p>
<p>By engaging in this analysis (which would itself be conducted
by a multi-stakeholder deliberative body), a more reasoned
determination can be made of the appropriate roles of
governments and other stakeholders in a given issue area, than
can be had by resorting to fixed descriptions of stakeholder
roles, or an arbitrary demarcation between “public policy” and
“technical and operational” issues. The result will be that the
appropriate role of governments in determining any given policy
issue can be defined with more particularity than simply making
a blanket claim of sovereignty.</p>
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It's on the NETmundial site but here is a better formatted version
(the content is identical):<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-2014-submission-on-evolution-of-the-internet-governance-ecosystem">http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-2014-submission-on-evolution-of-the-internet-governance-ecosystem</a><br>
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