[Fwd: [governance] Workshop proposal - Internationalisation of

[Garth Graham]

On 21-Apr-09, at 7:00 AM, William Drake wrote:

> Personally, I'd fudge it and say "globalization" instead.  At least  
> then nobody will assume they know what we mean and disagree  
> accordingly.  And I'd still much prefer that if the workshop is  
> intended to be about ICANN, we just say ICANN, rather than hiding  
> behind verbiage and implicitly conflating ICANN and IG to the  
> exclusion of all else---precisely what the caucus worked to  
> challenge during WSIS.  I don't think it's particularly helpful for  
> us to go retrograde, although I'll roll with whatever has support  
> here.

I know this doesn't help at this late date, but I see international /  
transnational / global as beside the point - which is the Internet's  
inherent capacity to support distributed self-organizing  
relationships.  All three of those words are hierarchical, and  
therefore move  Internet governance out of the frying pan of first  
principles about open relational choice and into the fire of closed  
and absolute systems of political authority.  Political governance  
that does not acknowledge a shift towards relational self- 
organization as a different approach to governance is not going to be  
good Internet Governance.  To put that another way, does anybody  
believe that "world" government can be "accountable political  
governance?"

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