[bestbits] Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period for ITU Plenipot joint recommendations

[McTim]

Michael,



On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:06 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we take it then that those who have signed on to this statement or who
> have elsewhere indicated a full and unquestioning support for MSism in
> Internet Governance (including of course countries such as the USA who are
> actively promoting MSism in all venues) are in agreement with Milton’s
> definition of Multistakeholderism as governance by “private sector-based MS
> institutions”?

No.


 And further that these proponents of MSism have renounced a
> belief in democracy (as in rule by and for the people) as the foundation of
> governance in the Internet (and presumably other) governance spaces?


No.


You have a fundamental (willful?) misunderstanding of MSism and the
history of how inter-networking has been cooperatively coordinated.


Rgds,

McTim