[governance] Halal Search Engine

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Carlos and all,

  Closed door meetings go on all the time on Intranets, some for good reasons
and some not, meaning that if public policy issues regarding the Internet are
part of the subject matter it would seem more reasonable that those meetings
should be pre announced, open to the public, and at a minimum avaliable for
public comment before and after the fact.  Unfortunately there are some 
stakeholders that strongly disagree with such a principal.  This is unfortunate
as such an attitude leads only to distrust, and rightly so.  Certainly ICANN
has been a catalist for breading such distrust in such a manner accordingly.
It now seems that the NCUC is making the same "Noises" in the very same
direction internally, while outwardly professing the opposite.  Quite a principal
paradox, eh?

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca>
>Sent: Sep 5, 2009 6:33 PM
>To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu>
>Cc: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [governance] Halal Search Engine
>
>It seems some of us have suddenly discovered that intranets on the Net
>are anathema, for whatever reason. I am probably dumb, cannot quite
>grasp why this has popped up. It seems equivalent to prohibiting all
>closed doors meetings anywhere. What is going on?
>
>--c.a.
>
>Milton L Mueller wrote:
>> By the way, Siva, your apparent rejection of a "rights-based" rationale seems incoherent to me.
>> On what basis are you challenging the right of a community to restrict itself if not on the basis of rights - of either individuals or groups?
>>
>> One of the reasons why I feel that the "rights-based approach" to Internet Governance is not a good idea...
>>
>> If "rights" are not a good idea, what is?
>>
>>   
>
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