[governance] ITU vs. ICANN

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Of course it is better when states make Internet friendly recommendations, but you can't count on that, even when they do know better.  And how well I know that states will make tradeoffs that hurt the things people care about - e.g. isn't that always the case with human rights and freedom of expression (except maybe for Norway, this week).

In terms of the ITU, in addition to prior education of the member states (though they tend to see 'education' as a presumptuous thing for us to call it)  we need vigilance, alarm raising and plans B, C, ...  

a.


On 8 Oct 2010, at 19:17, John Curran wrote:

>> Bottom line, the provisions of the Plenipot are only binding upon states with the consent of the state.
> 
> You are correct in principle, but in practice treaties are rather 
> complicated objects which exist to facilitate cooperation on matters
> of shared interest.  I'm not going to make arguments on behalf of the 
> ITU, but will note that states participate for a wide range of interests 
> and hence overwhelmingly seek to comply with resulting recommendations
> (so that they may in turn benefit from recommendations in other areas).  
> While we may see the Internet as the most important topic of all, it is 
> only one of many being discussed at the ITU Plenipotentiary meeting.  It 
> is far better to educate states so that they can make good recommendations
> than having to deal with bad recommendations after the fact...
> 
> /John
> 
> John Curran
> President and CEO
> ARIN
> 

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