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<p style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222">On January 31 a United Nations-based working group with grand ambitions for making “global public policy” for the Internet terminated
its activities without accomplishing anything. The WGEC held five meetings over two years, based on a mandate that was established in 2005. But in the end it was unable to agree on any recommendations. For those in the know, this failure is completely unsurprising.
So why bother to write about an obscure UN working group that couldn’t make a decision?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222">Because the WGEC provides an object lesson in how <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">not</span></em> to do global internet governance. More specifically, it shows
why it is futile to rely on states and intergovernmental processes for the development of global public policies for the Internet. It also shows why diplomatic attempts to obscure hard choices with vague words don’t succeed – they just waste everyone’s time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><a href="https://www.internetgovernance.org/2018/02/10/goodbye-good-riddance-enhanced-cooperation/">https://www.internetgovernance.org/2018/02/10/goodbye-good-riddance-enhanced-cooperation/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Milton L. Mueller<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor, School of Public Policy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Georgia Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></p>
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