[governance] Why do you associate the tech community with private sector ?

[Hervé Le Crosnier]

Vittorio Bertola a écrit :
> * national governments, including intergovernmental organizations;
> * the private sector, including the technical community;
> * civil society, including the community of individual Internet  
> users, non-profit organizations and the academic community."

	Hello,

	In many of recent mails on this list we find this three
	points list.

	Why do the technical community is not in the civil
	society part ?

	Most of the founding techniques of the internet came from
	universities, from the free software community. The
	motto of IETF ("rough consensus and running code") is clear
	enough to say they act as "netizens", and not as
	supporting any commercial purpose.

	There is commercial use of the internet, and even of some
	tech protocols. But it's a side effect of the real
	openess of the internet. To put the tech community
	into the private sector is going on the opposite of
	the way the most prominent of them are acting.

	For example, the W3C is trying to avoid patents over
	any new protocol for the internet. It's not a private
	sector approach. It's a civil society one.

	The tech community don't want the internet to be a
	battleground for private companies. They think of it as a new
	global  infrastructure where gouvernements, private sector and
	civil society can find their own way to use, and to share
	information and knowledge.

	To assimilate the tech community with the private sector
	seems to me as a great and confusing mistake.

Hervé Le Crosnier
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