[governance] what is it that threatens the Internet community or 'who is afraid of the IGF'

[Adam Peake]

At 10:05 AM -0400 9/10/07, Milton L Mueller wrote:
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>>"Issues relating to infrastructure and the
>>management of critical Internet resources,
>>including administration of the domain name
>>system and Internet protocol addresses (IP
>>addresses), administration of the root server
>>system, technical standards, peering and
>>interconnection, telecommunications
>>infrastructure, including innovative and
>>convergent technologies, as well as
>>multilingualization."
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>Adam, I guess I don't see how this paragraph "neuters, diverts or stacks
>the deck." Can you explain?


I think including "technical standards, peering 
and  interconnection, telecommunications 
infrastructure, including innovative and 
convergent technologies" is a diversion from the 
real issue we should be discussing. In email to 
the AG some months ago (and might also have 
copied to the governance list, can't remember) I 
suggested the WGIG background report was a better 
source, it goes into more detail:

54. Issues relating to infrastructure and the 
management of critical Internet resources are of 
direct relevance to Internet governance and fall 
within the ambit of existing organizations with 
responsibility for these matters. The issues 
divide fairly naturally into two subgroups:
* Issues relating to physical infrastructure 
including related technical standards, and 
telecommunications infrastructure including 
innovative and converged technologies; and 
* Issues relating to the management of critical 
Internet resources, including administration of 
the domain name system and IP addresses, 
administration of the root server system, as well 
as multilingualization of the domain name system

I'd have picked the second bullet only and left 
the first for access and perhaps openness 
(standards). But it seemed pointless to argue 
last week.

Adam







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