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

[McTim]

On 4/21/07, Dan Krimm <dan at musicunbound.com> wrote:
> At 8:45 AM +0300 4/21/07, McTim wrote:
>
> > ... Internetworking is not like other commons/utilities of a
> >nation state because it is transnational.
> >
>
> I'm not sure why that should make a huge difference with regard to the
> principle of representation, though it would certainly make a difference in
> the practical implementations.

I haven't had enough coffee to parse the above.
>
> It is still a commons, and an increasingly essential utility in a growing
> number of areas of the world.

ACK

>
> Not all Internet users (that is, "individual natural persons who use the
> Internet in some way"...) are competent to participate in the formulation
> of policies to protect their interests in it.

Bollocks m8!

  But they still deserve
> effective representation in the policy making processes that affect that
> use,

and we are more competent to determine that representation than they are?

especially if current policies could prevent their becoming competent
> to participate in the future.

Can you name such a policy?

>
> There are distinct limits to "self-responsibility" in even the most
> democratic governance processes.  There is an ineliminable collective
> component to governance in any equitable society, where some people must
> take responsibility for protecting the interests of others.

In my Utopia, people take the responsibility to represent themselves
on an issue they are interested in.  Why is a collective component
needed, just becasue that's what we are used to having?

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim
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