[governance] Program for IGC at IGF

[Vittorio Bertola]

George Sadowsky ha scritto:
> Avri,
> 
> Let's look at access policy _within_ a country, e.g. licensing of ISPs, 
> decisions with regard to ISP liability, monopoly telecomm carriers, 
> not-level playing fields, licensing of ISPs, licensing of wireless 
> frequencies and devices.  etc.  These are all issues of national policy.
> 
> It may be that international best practices can provide good guidelines, 
> but these are more likely to be de facto standards set by industry than 
> the result of intergovernmental action.
> 
> Perhaps we have different definitions of policy.

I think you are just looking at different parts of the story.

For example, if I may add another one, the technologies of the Internet 
are global in nature, and they tend to be difficult to regulate at the 
national level. In some cases, things may happen outside of the national 
government's sphere of power (e.g. Yahoo and Nazi auctions in France, 
Whois and European privacy regulations, DRM-enforced consumer rules and 
so on). In these cases, either you have instruments for global 
harmonization that make everyone feel included in the determination of 
what happens, or local people - including the local government - will 
start to feel "colonized".

Actually, most countries would rather break the Internet than accept de 
facto laws (of the type "code is law") on which they had no say, so if 
we as "global think-tank" can't suggest the proper ways to accommodate 
this need, the Internet is at serious risk, and no amount of 
anti-governmental and pro-market rhetorics will keep it together.
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