[governance] International Internet Treaty proposed by Europe

[Lee W McKnight]

Thanks for keeping an open mind - and confirming my recollection of our prior not-so-enthusiastic reception, McTim. ; )


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From: McTim [dogwallah at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:39 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; parminder
Subject: Re: [governance] International Internet Treaty proposed by Europe

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:31 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday 22 September 2010 08:29 AM, Lee W McKnight wrote:
>
> Don't know about Vilnius.
>
> Several of us were talking about a an Internet treaty or framework
> convention at earlier IGF's and on this list.
>
> But we were told that was impossibly radical/might upset some of the powers
> that be.
>
>
> True, I keep hoping that at least civil society actors are rather less
> circumspect about upsetting powers and could take a lead on developing some
> global principles for IG, as well as come up with workable institutional
> options regarding them. To take such lead will the best way to get our
> perspectives in.

and then have them promptly ignored when it came to intergovernmental
negotiation time?? No thanks, not in my name anyway.

--
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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