[governance] My blog on the Tuesday consultation

[McTim]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> The technical community has some kind of distrust about spaces outside their
> own ones, which, especially the policy oriented ones, are seen by them as
> threatening to bring in statist control over the internet, which they (as
> per their opinion) manage

it is NOT their opinion that they "manage the Internet".  They manage
Internet resources, standards processes, coordinate protocols
assignments, etc.

quite well. They do not think they need any, or
> any further, political inputs,

Then why do they spend so much time, effort and money on things like
the WSIS/IGF/OECD/$_name??  I have to say that much of the bloat of
the ICANN budget that some on this list complain about so bitterly
comes from such efforts.

Why is it that when a group of people all have the same opinion on
something, we assume there is a conspiracy?  Maybe they just share the
same view?

What if, say, someone were to blog and accuse you and Milton and
Russia and China, et. al., of coordinating efforts on this issue, it
would be unfair, wouldn't it?  Appearances can be deceiving.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
mctim.blogspot.com
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