[governance] Revised version of statement on themes for Nairobi

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

hmmm....interesting and am musing on Norbert's additional phrase, it makes
sense to me.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> > I'm not inclined to modify the statement on which the consensus call
> > has been made
>
> Hm... I think this means that as far as I'm concerned, we fail to have
> consensus.
>
> In my view, the need for open standards which must be adequate not
> only to prevent perpetuate of past monopolies but also prevent the
> formation of new monopolies is an absolutely essential aspect
> of what the term "open Internet" should be understood to mean.
>
> I apologize, I mean I'm really sorry, that I did not participate
> as immediately actively in the drafting of this statement as I
> now wish I had. But please note that I first made the request
> for the inclusion of a mention of the aspect of open standards
> several days before the consensus call was issued, and that the
> whole point of a consensus call is to give everyone the opportunity
> to review a draft statement and speak out if, from any one the
> verious perspectives represented here, there's something seriously
> wrong with the draft statement. From my perspective, this is the
> case. The statement "An open Internet is one that supports
> development, promotes Access to Knowledge, and resists perpetuating
> the power of old media and telecommunications empires on the new
> network." is in my opinion so one-sided that it is actually seriously
> wrong, unless it is complemented with an additional sentence like
> the one that I'm proposing.
>
> When new media and telecommunication empires (think e.g. of facebook
> and twitter) become monopolies through lack of adequate standardization,
> that is in no way better than the perpetuation of the power of old
> media and telecommunication empires.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
> > On 30/01/2011, at 4:12 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> >
> > >> 1. Open Internet - Network Neutrality on Wired and Mobile Networks
> > >> Open Internet (or Network Neutrality) describes an ideal in which
> > >> the openness of the Internet to the broadest possible range of
> > >> commercial and non-commercial content, applications and services is
> > >> maintained.  An open Internet is one that supports development,
> > >> promotes Access to Knowledge, and resists perpetuating the power of
> > >> old media and telecommunications empires on the new network.
> > >
> > > Please add something like
> > >
> > > "An open internet is based on open standards in such a way that it
> > > also resists the creation of any new monopolies in the area of
> > > information and communication technologies."
> >
> > Once the consensus call is in progress, I can normally only accept
> > minor and uncontroversial changes to the text.  Although I agree
> > with this addition as a normative statement, it is not usually part
> > of the definition of open Internet or network neutrality.  If the
> > theme is accepted for Nairobi then we should be sure to make open
> > standards a part of it, but at this stage I'm not inclined to modify
> > the statement on which the consensus call has been made.
>
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