Internet governance principles thread

[William Drake]

There is significant overlap among these schematic statements, which could be taken as a sign of an important emerging consensus on key points, and/or as sign that consensus is easy at a high level of generality…

One does wonder a little about the utility of the exercise if we end up saying things like openness is good, restrictions are bad…

Bill


On Oct 28, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:

> Dear Jeremy
> 
> I had a look at the survey.. and.. well.. I did not really find the
> differences between the options that clear...and I also could not quite
> relate them back to the discussion thread on the list. But I have been
> busy and have not been able to follow the thread as carefully as I would
> have liked to.
> 
> Best
> 
> Anriette
> 
> 
> On 28/10/2012 03:45, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>> On 22/10/2012, at 3:02 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 02/10/12 18:44, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>>>> This is a counterpart to the previous thread, for ideas about what should go into the Internet governance principles statement for the IGF that we develop at Best Bits.  Whilst we will be working on this face-to-face, it is sensible not to cram our work into one session when preparatory work can be done online.
>>> 
>>> In previous discussions here, nobody has disagreed that we should begin from an existing document in developing our statement of     Internet governance principles.  However differences of opinion have been expressed over what would be the most suitable document to use.
>>> 
>>> Here is a survey which I would encourage you to take, which I presents four of the most obvious choices, and asks you to rank them according to your preference:
>>> 
>>> http://www.igcaucus.org/limesurvey/index.php?sid=78947&lang=en
>>> 
>>> Please take a few minutes to take the above survey, and I'll present the options back here in one week.
>> 
>> 
>> We still only have 5 responses to this... so if you haven't responded, please follow the link above and provide your preferred ranking for the Internet principles statements that we could use as a basis for our work next week.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
> 
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