[governance] Nitin Desai's two groups

[Ian Peter]

Actually the more I look at this the more I don't think any of the
stakeholder groups can be absolutely dumped in one camp or another. We've
already explored that governments are mixed - within the technical
community, there is a significant if less vocal group who would definitely
seek change to varying degrees. (Robert Kahn, co-founder of TCP/IP would be
one of the voices here, as would be Louis Pouzin, the great European
Internet pioneer and inventor of datagrams). 

Within private sector, there would certainly be groups who would like to see
internet governance changed in various ways and who would not be happy with
the status quo. This would certainly include a lot of the innovative
companies.

And within civil society, while most of us would see the need for some
change, the degree and nature of change we would seek differs greatly.

So our allies in seeking change are likely to be everywhere, and will differ
depending on the specific issue we are addressing. I think that's where
multi-stakeholder is quite intriguing.

Ian Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org]
> Sent: 04 December 2008 12:39
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Nitin Desai's two groups
> 
> On 04/12/2008, at 5:47 AM, Ian Peter wrote:
> 
> > I too though Desai's quote was excellent - but I do interpret it a bit
> > differently, in that governments as I see it sit in the second group
> > who
> > want more say and/or more power. That's an interesting dynamic.
> 
> 
> Well, it's both IMHO; largely southern governments such as Brazil and
> China, so yes we do have some interesting bedfellows.   That leaves in
> the first group the technical community, private sector and the US and
> its close allies.  All of this was obvious to us from (even before)
> Athens, but I don't think Desai has come out and acknowledged it until
> now.
> 
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