[governance] NN Workshop Thread

[William Drake]

Hi,

On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Parminder wrote:
>
> I do often wonder that if US, or US plus EU, decide that such-and- 
> such NN regulation is necessary to be observed by the concerned  
> actors, would that not set the default global regime for NN. Do  
> developing countries - even a relatively larger and more powerful  
> one  like India - have any serious options but to accept the default  
> regime.

In general, we tend to focus too exclusively on negotiated frameworks  
for IG, whether intergovernmental, private sector, or  
multistakeholder, at the expense of frameworks  that are in effect  
unilaterally imposed by powerful states, firms, and industry  
associations, or that emerge through the adoption by the same of  
convergent policies and practices. So I agree that NN policies adopted  
by the US or US plus EU could indeed have generalizable configurative  
effects across frontiers, and that this provides grounds for their  
assessment in the IGF context.  It just has to be framed well...

Best,

Bill
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