[governance] Going forward - Role of the governance caucus

[Joe Baptista]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, [iso-8859-1] Wolfgang Kleinwächter wrote:

> Yes and No. I heard some voices in Geneva arguing that CS undermines
>its role if it does not speak with one voice (or lets say a limited
>number of voices).

This whole WSIS process is a farce.  Much like ICANN has been a horse and
pony show for years now.  I think the best the WSIS can hope for is to
help ICANN and government constitutencies acknowledge the obvious.  The
root belong to the people of the internet - not self interests.

The future is based in honesty:

http://www.netkwesties.nl/editie140/artikel1.html

>Governments want to have one contact point (or at
>least a calculable number of partners) to know with whom they have to
>deal (if they are ready to communicate at all).

Look.  Governments just want control and a fixed outcome.  The can't have
control but they can have a fixed outcome.  The DNS and root belongs to
everyone.  Governments will only be able to control namespaces within
their own jurisdictions.  Just like the Turkish root does.  And the china
root.  But in the end the only way we are going to see everything in one
co-ordinated root wil not be determined by the WSIS process.

>One natural difficulty is
>certainly that CS risks to end up like the EU: Hours of multilateral
>consultations behind closed doors and finaly a statement with ten lines,
>representing the "consensus" on the lowest level. Such an input would not
>lead to impact. On the other hand there is a need to act in a way which
>signals that there is more than diverse individual positions of academics
>and activists, representing minority of expert groups.

I'm not sure I would agree with you that there are many experts here.  I
think it was intentional that human rights and internet roots got mixed up
together in the WSIS process.  These issues of rights are irrelevant to
root.  And the most important issue - the root - control and archiving -
has never been delt with.

As this group wallows in some delussion it is acomplishing anything of
merit I would like to point out that it is not.  I don't see many
stakeolders here - just alot of experts - some i wold even accredit as
such.

Do your best.  All I can say is thank god the world don't have to depend
on the WSIS.

cheers
joe baptista

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