[governance] Strangeness in the IGF programme

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<75822E125BCB994F8446858C4B19F0D701C79C6D09 at SUEX07-MBX-04.ad.syr.edu>, 
at 04:01:02 on Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> 
writes
>"Maintaining Internet services in situations of disaster and crisis"
> - a good topic for network operators but what's the CIR angle and
>how is global governance involved?

There's a whole world out there that calls itself "Critical [National] 
Infrastructure" and is all about governments having enough levers to 
pull in a time a time of natural (or un-natural) disaster to instruct 
operators to do things "in the National Interest" that they would not 
normally feel obliged to - as a result of contractual or other 
considerations.
-- 
Roland Perry
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