[governance] enhanced consultations - further inputs

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<93F4C2F3D19A03439EAC16D47C591DDE0330006EE5 at suex07-mbx-08.ad.syr.edu>, 
at 16:58:51 on Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> writes
>First,
>
>Since I seem to be taking the unpopular positions of late - allow me to 
>defend the ITU's honor : )
...
> Anyway, point is in spite of ITU's interminable processes, they work 
>reasonably well for...190 countries; and lots of users.

I wasn't intending to knock the ITU, although it's a spectator sport for 
many. I try to "walk a mile in their shoes" before criticising anyone, 
and in this case have attended about 20 full days of ITU meetings and 
conferences in person, and the same again by remote participation.

>Leaving aside for now how they may be improved in a multistakeholder 
>manner.

There are improvements to transparency which could be made, but there 
are also funding issues. But mindful that it's a membership 
organisation, and everyone has a government close at hand which is a 
member, we are all quite close to the process if we want to be.

>Now back to the question at hand, can we do better than that for global 
>democratic processes around Internet governance? Of course.  See 
>there's these Internet protocols which make it trivially easy to go 
>from local to global...ok yeah more than that is needed but scalability 
>is NOT the problem.

That's a bit like saying it would be easy for everyone to get into the 
governance of air traffic control, because planes fly everywhere. But 
that's an illusion.

>Being afraid to even broach the subject is the surest way to make sure 
>it never happens.
>
>So definitely that should be a talking point for David A., however it 
>is wordsmithed between now and 12.14, starting from Parminder's pretty 
>reasonable draft.

If we can solve the problem of International Multistakeholder Governance 
of the Internet (by the Internet) then we can apply it to governing 
everything else in the world, and that could be quite some achievement.
-- 
Roland Perry
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