[governance] ICANN taxes/fees (was: Caucus at IGF stock taking meeting)

[Vittorio Bertola]

George Sadowsky ha scritto:
> entities.  I think the IGF in a good position to provide evidence and 
> opinion, but I cannot see how you get any kind of policy closure out of 
> it.  How, for example, would IGF decisions --  assuming that one could 
> even set up a decision making mechanism within a forum  --  be enforced, 
> and at what level?  Governments? Industries?  I just don't see it.  It's 
> the wrong instrument for decision making.

On the Internet, policy often is not something you have to enforce 
against someone else - it is something that everyone agrees upon and so 
everyone (well - almost everyone, i.e. "rough consensus") will 
implement. That is the kind of "decision" that the IGF could take and 
release: something that is not binding but is so smart and up to the 
point of some pressing issue that everyone will find it useful. After 
all, RFCs work this way - there is usually no law or binding power that 
forces you to abide by them, but, as there is an advantage for everyone 
in using them, they are generally followed.
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