[governance] enhanced consultations - further inputs

[Lee W McKnight]

McTim,

You are prejudging the conclusion of a process that has not been proposed, much less begun, and hence is very far from concluded.

I appreciate your foresight, and I may be...presumptuous myself.  But.

Lee
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From: McTim [dogwallah at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 4:47 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Lee W McKnight
Cc: Roland Perry
Subject: Re: [governance] enhanced consultations - further inputs

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> wrote:
> Right:
>
> "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."
>
> We're making some progress.

I see asking for governmental intervention as regressive.

>
> Advocating a Framework Convention as some of us have been suggesting as a next step for years...on the 14th would be a - small step - in the right direction.

If we want to create a centralised, largely (or exclusively)
intergovernmental  "ITU for the Internet" in charge of routing,
content, security, cybercrime, FOI/FOE, IP, CIRs, and the regulation
of all online businesses, then yes, it's a step in the right
direction.

If however, one prefers to keep Internet policy in the hands of the
networks that make up the Internet, then no, it's a mis-step.

>
> The language from the ITforchange EC submission could get ball rolling.

down a very slippery slope!

--
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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