[governance] Cameroon and Wales collision in TLD space ?????

Jeffrey A. Williams jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com
Sat Oct 17 16:49:56 EDT 2009


Michael and all,

  Grads of Diplo-IG courses especially any that might be under
the ISOC's totalage are of very questionable value as many of 
other educational sector's Diplo degreed folks have proven to largely
be of very questionable quality with a very few exceptions.  Practical
experiance and on the ground experiance is a far better measure
of good "Suitable" canadates for a "Suitable Cadre", as it were and
whatever that actually is or can be difinitively defined as.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 16, 2009 11:48 AM
>To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, 'Paul Lehto' <lehto.paul at gmail.com>
>Subject: RE: [governance] Cameroon and Wales collision in TLD space ?????
>
>Since my casually tossed terms re: "diverse" and "suitable cadres" seems to
>have entered into some sort of lexicological bestiary I think it may be
>worth while teasing it out a bit...
>
>To recall... I used that terminology in the context of the IGF evaluation
>indicating things I saw as positive outcomes of the IGF.  One of the
>positives I saw was that the IGF was creating (or partially creating and
>partially eliciting) a cadre of people knowledgeable in the area of Internet
>Governance.  As with most semi-technical or technical areas 	Internet
>Governance is an area with a somewhat significant learning curve required to
>become an actual "player" in the field i.e. one who can contribute
>substantively to discussions and potentially to outcomes.
>
>Having individuals who have been self-selected or designated (in some formal
>process by a range of institutions including governments, civil society
>etc.) as being IG people and then going through the process of
>self-education in that area sufficient to contribute, is I think overall
>useful especially since special interest groups (mostly the private sector)
>spend considerable resources hiring and retaining such expertise.  Having
>folks like Bill Graham formerly of the Canadian Government and now of ISOC
>or the graduates from the Diplo IG course, I think all have made and are
>making significant positive contributions to broad civil society objectives
>in the IG context. 
>
>My concern with this is that the range of those who are able to self-select
>or be involved in programs such as Diplo's is rather too narrow (i.e. not
>sufficiently "diverse") although the current initiative towards national and
>regional IGF's will go a considerable distance to correcting this I would
>hope.
>
>Would that such developments were available in other reas of interest. If
>suitable and diverse cadres of expertise were being developed in areas such
>as for example, community informatics the current failure of most Universal
>Access programs around the world to be anything other than agents for
>providing subsidies to incumbent carriers would have been long since
>overcome.
>
>Best,
>
>Mike   
>
>-----Original Message-----rgrams 
>From: Paul Lehto [mailto:lehto.paul at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 8:54 AM
>To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Bertrand de La Chapelle
>Cc: Roland Perry
>Subject: Re: [governance] Cameroon and Wales collision in TLD space ?????
>
>
>If there's not a democratic system of governance at ICANN, any such
>"collision" of domain names or any other issue for that matter is purely a
>matter for insider "experts" at ICANN and not the proper "domain" of anyone
>on this list. If they wish to have anyone's
>opinion, they will surely let us know.   ICANN has declared itself
>"Independent" so to the extent anyone's opinion is even considered, it is
>purely a matter (according to ICANN) of ICANN's grace in allowing us to do
>so.  They just wouldn't of course call it "grace" but that's what it would
>be.  They'd say they wished to invite a "diverse" and "suitable cadre" to
>advise them.  Even Henry VIII would have said the same.
>
>Paul Lehto, Juris Doctor
>
>On 10/16/09, Bertrand de La Chapelle <bdelachapelle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have seen in previous posts this reference to the possible collision 
>> between .cym and the three letter ISO code for Cameroon. Did not chime 
>> in then as the thread had continued on another topic, but I am a bit 
>> puzzled here.
>>
>> If there is a problem, it's with the Cayman island (3-letter iso code 
>> CYM), not Cameroon. As the Cayman islands are a UK territory, the 
>> relevant national authority is the same as the Wales proposal, isn't 
>> it ? Anyway, don't they already have a 2-letter ccTLD (kY is the 
>> 2-letter ISO 3166 code) ?
>>
>> The issue may be real (there may be cases of possible collision) but 
>> apparently the example does not work. Unless I'm mistaken which is 
>> possible given that it was a rapid check. I may have just exposed my 
>> insufficient knowledge ;-)
>>
>> I suppose the possible collisions will only appear in due course as 
>> other proposals will be put forward.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Bertrand
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Roland Perry < 
>> roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In message 
>>> <76f819dd0910151202y2a0ac3bbna59f0435a6a21558 at mail.gmail.com>,
>>> at 12:02:43 on Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Paul Lehto <lehto.paul at gmail.com> writes
>>>
>>>> Roland, you dropped out of the debate about democracy and ICANN,
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had said everything I wanted to.
>>>
>>>  Is this your hypothetical question about Cameroon and such?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. And while it's hypothetical today, I'm 99% sure that such a 
>>> decision will need to be made in the foreseeable future. Two groups 
>>> of people are on a collision course!
>>>
>>> [I have no special interest in either the Cameroons, or Wales, but 
>>> it's an elegant example to highlight the difficulties than can arise 
>>> in a congested name-space]
>>>
>>>   If so, please understand that even if you proved your apparent 
>>> "case"
>>>> that there are difficulties of implementation in your (straw man) 
>>>> version of democracy, it does not follow whatsoever that any old 
>>>> thing, most especially
>>>> an un-democratic any old thing, can take the  place of some version of
>>>> democracy.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Which is why I asked what precise form of democracy *you* recommend 
>>> to resolve the 'collision' I described.
>>>
>>>  It would be more enlightening for you to answer the question:
>>>>
>>>> Do you believe any subset of the people, whether "experts" or 
>>>> owners, have the right to define and/or control or regulate the 
>>>> common life of people on the Internet?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to discover what subset of the people *you* would 
>>> recommend made decisions to resolve 'collisions' like the one I 
>>> described.
>>>
>>> Or if it's "all of the people", how would you organise a ballot on 
>>> this 'collision', that would avoid the drawbacks I mentioned in my 
>>> original question.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Roland Perry 
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>>
>>
>> --
>> ____________________
>> Bertrand de La Chapelle
>> Délégué Spécial pour la Société de l'Information / Special Envoy for 
>> the Information Society Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et 
>> Européennes/ French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
>> Tel : +33 (0)6 11 88 33 32
>>
>> "Le plus beau métier des hommes, c'est d'unir les hommes" Antoine de 
>> Saint Exupéry ("there is no greater mission for humans than uniting 
>> humans")
>>
>
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