[governance] RE: Human rights and new gTLDs

[Milton L Mueller]

>Clark, Sollins, Wroclawski and Braden in a 2002  
>paper titled "Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's 
>Internet". their basic premise is "... one important 
>reality that surrounds the Internet today: different 
>stakeholders that are part of the Internet have 
>interests that may be adverse to each other, and these 
>parties vie to favor their particular interests." 
>Their emphasis in the paper was mostly architectural, 
>but it applies to policy as well.  i think.

This is so.....IETF. What you have there, Avri, is a simple statement of
what any political scientist or political economist would call interest
group politics. But instead of recognizing that there are, in fact,
other disciplines that have relevant knowledge to contribute to our
understanding of what is happening to the Internet, and seeking out how
those concepts have been developed in other literatures (including other
ICTs), Clark et al invent their own word and their own literature and
proceed in their own insular world. All of the authors you cite are
brilliant network protocol designers and internet architects, and
worldly-smart in a large number of other ways, but it gets tiresome to
deal with this insularity sometimes. 
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