[governance] Statement made in Plenary

[Vittorio Bertola]

Jacqueline Morris wrote:
> I agree.
> Once things start to get politicised, there lies the problem. I don't
> think it's necessarily ICANN, or the US, but all Governments can  (and
> sometimes do) apply local law to companies to further their political
> agendas.

I still have a problem with using private law to regulate an 
"international global facility", as long as these private law 
arrangements entrust individual companies with the factual power to deny 
the service - or make it very hard to obtain - to entire countries or 
categories of people (language communities might be another example).

I don't think that hard global public regulation, i.e. treaties, is the 
best way to solve the problem either, but I also don't think that 
business decisions deriving from the interest of one party only should 
be the one and only driver of the evolution of the Internet.
-- 
vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...
_______________________________________________
governance mailing list
governance at lists.cpsr.org
https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance