[governance] Reposting Workshop 1: Revolutionary Internet

[Roland Perry]

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<j2z83b95841004141714t74bd6515md95698cf1758441c at mail.gmail.com>, at 
12:14:37 on Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro 
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> writes
>I am not an IG expert and don't claim to be one. However, from a
>layperson's perspective when you are discussing "Emergency" what is it
>that you are discussing:-
>
>1) Infrastructure;
>2)Content - prioritisation of packets;
>3)Supply of Equipment or Contracts of Service or Supply etc deriving
>some sort of legal obligations of contractual nature;
>4)Interconnection - categorisation of traffic etc.

I am discussing mainly a "natural disaster" (although that includes 
man-made things like terrorist attacks) which interrupts communications.

>My view of Supply contracts and "emergency" would be that in any
>ordinary contracts, you would always have "Force Majeur" provisions

That's normally used to describe the circumstances where a supplier 
cannot deliver his contract to a customer, because the supplier is 
directly affected by the incident.

What I'm talking about is a generally unaffected supplier deciding to 
starve an otherwise unaffected customer in order to help a 
disaster-struck one.

It's just one small part of helping disaster recovery, but it's 
something that I think Governments can (and need to) lay the foundations 
for.
-- 
Roland Perry
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