[governance] Re: Draft IGC statement on Wikileaks

[Ian Peter]

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> From: McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:33:19 +0300
> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
> Cc: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> Subject: Re: [governance] Re: Draft IGC statement on Wikileaks
> 
> Prmndr, Lee, Ian, et. al,
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:45 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>> Hi Jeremy
>> 
> 
>> 
>> "The recent WikiLeaks affairs have starkly brought out how global Internet
>> cannot, and should not, be governed through illegitimate use of political
>> and commercial power. There are two clear problems with this approach of
>> using backroom governance tactics. One, they is always likely to be abused,
>> as in our view, they got hugely abused in the Wikileaks case. Second, in
>> possible cases where it may legitimately be required to employ some urgent
>> global governance responses to real problems or threats (or perhaps even
>> opportunities), which cannot completely be assumed away, backroom levels of
>> power based on raw political and commerical might, as employed by some
>> governments and their corporate cronies in the present case, are not
>> available to less powerful political players or countries. This situation
>> bespeaks a democratic deficit and a need for globally democratic principles
>> and institutional frameworks in the area of Internet governance, which is
>> the urgent challenge that the proposed process of enhanced cooperation
>> should address itself to. "
> 
> 
> I have a hypothetical question (that may not be so hypothetical, if
> the actions by some re: CSTD are anything to go by).
> 
> If the governemtns of the world decided they would build a "framework"
> of some kind re: IG, but shut out all non-governmental actors in its
> development, would you all still be in favor of said framework
> building?
> 
> 
> -- 
> 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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