[governance] RE: [NA-Discuss] ALAC and NCUC

[David Goldstein]

This is unrealistic McTim. There is no way everyone with an interest in the future of the internet would ever get involved. I'm sure you and everyone else on this list have an interest in how the roads, public transport, hospitals, health systems and education works, to name just a few. But it's highly unlikely you'll ever be involved in more than a couple, if any at all.

So when anything to do with IG is concerned, the concerns and desires of everyone who uses the internet should be considered wherever possible.

Cheers
David
----- Original Message ----
From: McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, 21 April, 2007 6:51:47 AM
Subject: Re: [governance] RE: [NA-Discuss] ALAC and NCUC

On 4/20/07, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> You say, which I agree with that what we are really talking about is
> some form of "political representation" (and if you want to know my
> "agenda", it is that I believe that the broader societal influence and
> significance of this form of political representation is likely to
> increase very dramatically in the not too distant future and that if it
> continues to be the more or less exclusive preserve of a very clubby and
> socially narrow set of techies then there will be all hell to pay...

Soooo, what if everyone who was interested joined the techies lists and
went to those meetings?

Would there still be a need for reform?

Wouldn't a situation where all Internet Users could represent themselves
if they wanted to, be the best of all possible worlds?

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim
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