[governance] IGF relevance?

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> That is my feeling too. Everything seems to stop with EU and US centric
> NN discussions and debates. The rest of the world can sit quietly and
> wait while everything is okay on that side and the rules are set for the
> rest to follow.

[Milton L Mueller] 

Hah. You make me laugh, Parminder and Fouad. 

First, everything is NOT all right with NN in the US, far from it, the FCC's rules are almost certain to be overturned either by the courts or by congress. As for the EU, I do not know how things will come out. 

And that relates to my point, which was being misconstrued by Parminder as indifference. The point is that NN is driven by _local_ politics, by national regulators, legislatures, business interests and advocacy groups. Those vary from country to country. 

> The developed perspective usually is that what they say is what is
> authority over any other discussion and I cannot buy that.

[Milton L Mueller] 

That's the opposite of what I am saying. You want NN in Pakistan? Start organizing in Pakistan. Sure, you can learn from experience in many other countries, including both BRICS and OECDs, but if you want to make policy it will have to be local. 




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