[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avri Doria [mailto:avri at psg.com] 
> 
> I think that is is dangerous and problematic to be abandoning 
> the goal of Multistakeholder Governance.  Once you go back to 
> the 'individual is the thing', you have played into the 
> Government position that they are the representatives of the 
> individuals within their borders.

MS is not the goal, it is a means to an end. The idea that govts represent individuals is laughable, when individuals can participate directly and speak for themselves. Which they can in a MS environment. So yes, let's retain both the rhetoric and the reality of MS, but let's not reify it as an end in itself. 

> Yes, each of the Stakeholders needs to find a democratic 
> foundation and there has to be a fair and representative 
> relationship in relation to the governance, an we need to 
> make sure that we do not limit the number of character of the 
> stakeholder groups - there may be more the 3/4/5 currently 
> defined in Internet governance.  but blatant 
> individual-votism will just bring up back to the old notions 
> that it is the nation state that is the individual's 
> representative and support those who think Ig is just a 
> matter of multilateral decision making.

I have never before been accused of being an advocate of nation-states. This is a first!
;-)

Milton Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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