[governance] Internet Technical Community Background Documentto OECD

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Milton and all,

  A few comments and observations if I may.

  First, nicely and craftily stated response in your last sentence,
Milton.  >:)

  I don't know anyone, nor have I ever know anyone that is, was,
or could ever be a "self-identified spokesperson" for the Internet
technical community."  Not even the deceased Jon Postel.

  Private schools boards are not all elected part of local govt.
communities.  In fact to my knowledge most are not.

Milton L Mueller wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > Despite your efforts to efforts paint me as a "self-identified
> > spokesperson" for the Internet technical community, I have never
> > claimed this role, only given my opinion on the matter.
>
> OK.
>
> > and you are now of the view that a governance organisation CANNOT be
> > CS?  What about my example of a School Board, composed of volunteers
> > from the community that the school serves,
> > no government involved anywhere,
>
> School Board members are elected parts of local govt in my community and
> in most local communities in the US. But that's a good example. If you
> are forming a group of civil society advocates/activists in a local
> community around educational policy, and you are particularly interested
> in organizing to get the local school board to develop or change its
> policies in some way, you might view the chair of the local School Board
> as a valuable source of information about how the system works, and as a
> potential ally, but you would not want that person to represent your
> interests regarding changes or criticism of his/her own Board.
>
> > While it is true that the Internet Society has businesses as members,
> > I must point out that this does not disqualify them from CS.
>
> Of course not
>
> > self-identification is at the heart of our charter, the NomCom has
> > done away with this self-identification in the case of fulltime staff
> > of "existing Internet governance bodies" in that they can
> > self-identify as much as they want, but they can't have the same
> > rights you have Milton, and I think that's absolute rubbish.
>
> They have the same rights, as I've said 100 times I would think twice
> about a potential conflict of interest before expecting them to
> represent me on issues related to the policies of their own employer.
>
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