[governance] ICANN head warns against putting Internet addresses

[parminder]

Avri Doria wrote:
> On 29 May 2010, at 13:40, Everton Lucero wrote:
>
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>> I am certain  Mr. Beckstrom would have never said that
>> nonsensical phrase.
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> You have more confidence in him than many.
>
> a.
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Though I am quite sure, whatever Mr Beckstrom feels in his heart, he 
could not have afforded to take names directly, the real point here is 
different.

This tendency extends much beyond ICANNists, the press in the North etc 
to also many in the civil society. It is of caricaturing in simplistic 
terms what the agenda of developing countries - including the more 
democratic among them - is at the global IG level. It is taken to be 
simple ' CONTROL (in deliberate caps) the Internet in order to control FoE'.

And this single perspective completely blocks out all the other genuine 
concerns developing countries have vis a vis the governance of the 
Internet at the global level, when they can see how Internet keeps on 
increasingly to be shaped by the corporates and governments of the North 
to serve their partisan interests.

It is the same attitude taken to 'enhanced cooperation'. Dont even 
mention that term - it is the code word for developing country 
governments being able to stifle FoE on the Internet (as if any country 
who really had wanted to do it needs much anything more than such 
controls as are already available domestically).

The same people who are often most vocal in asserting that (1) the 
Internet is increasingly a part of almost all parts of our social life, 
and of almost every social structure , and (2) the Internet is 
inherently global, are strangely mute when it comes to the obvious 
implications of these assertions - that the governance of the Internet 
is an extremely important issue, and that it has to be done by all 
people, groups and nations in a democratic manner and not left to a few 
corporates and the more powerful governments. And the straightforward 
implication of that which is - we first of need to have a democratic 
global forum for shaping global Internet policies.

EC for me is the only available direction towards that. Nothing in 
politics, or anywhere else, will ever be perfect, but I cant see how can 
we (as in, civil society in IG arena) be giving up our responsibility to 
pursue this available direction based on some pre-conceived notions of 
'we know what developing country governments are up to'.

Parminder



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