[governance] IG and its linkage to technology

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Dear all,

The topic is commendable in that it can enable the mapping of outcome
as we take into account the different interests of all partners
-strategic/boundary.The topic further tickles in the handling of the
technological aspect of IG
That was well thought, Karl.
Let the debate roll, therefore.

On 4/14/07, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:
>
> > It's not that I don't want to solve the world's problems.  It's just
> > that I'd rather start small, making small, and correctable mistakes,
> > rather than make big mistakes that are hard to undo.  (Just look at
> > how deeply entrenched the ICANN mistakes have become.)
> >
> > This is why I have suggested that discussions of internet governance pick a
> > fairly neutral, but certainly difficult topic, as a proof-of-concept.
>
> I feel the same way (with the topic proposal that I made being
> certification labels.)
>
> > My suggested topic is this: How can end-users (or their
> > agents/local-ISPs) obtain assurances (not guarantees) of end-to-end,
> > cross-carrier service quality sufficient to support the user's
> > application (such as VOIP).
> >
> > That's not a trivial topic, it deals with issues of the balance of power
> > between users and providers, and between providers and providers.  It deals
> > with costs, it deals with routing and inter-provider peering, transit, and
> > exchanges, it deals with user-desired traffic preferences (and because it is
> > user-desired it tends to keep the topic out of the "net neutrality" debate.)
> >
> > It's a topic that could make the difference between usable VOIP and unusable
> > VOIP, particularly for "southern" regions.
>
> I agree that this proposal is a good one.  Compared to the
> certification marks topic, this proposal has the advantages that
> it's technologically very interesting (and is therefore much
> more attractive to technologists to think about), and that it
> has obvious significance with regard to economic development of
> economically disadvantaged regions.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert.
>
>
> --
> Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                    http://Norbert.ch
> President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG  http://SIUG.ch
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