[governance] Egypt and Internet Governance

[Norbert Bollow]

> In message <20110130113619.A00C915C195 at quill.bollow.ch>, at 12:36:19 on 
> Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> writes
> 
> >I strongly support pushing for a "code of conduct" of some kind
> >that incorporates this principle.
> 
> Who drafts it, who signs up, and who polices it?

It could be drafted by some kind of "dynamic coalition" process
in the IGF context.

Unless some countries are interested in creating a formal
international treaty with some kind of enforcement provisions,
it would be policed only to the extent that of course nothing
will stop the legislature of any country from adding the
principles of the "code of conduct" to the national laws.

But even if this doesn't happen in any single country, even if
following the "code of conduct" remains, from a legal perspective,
entirely voluntary, I would expect that the document could still
have a very significant practical impact.

Just like many of IETF's RFCs have very significant practical impact
even without them having been formally adopted by any national
legislature, or even by any standardization organization with the
kind of formal international recognition that e.g. ISO has. And
there's definitely to "internet police" to enforce the RFCs.

Greetings,
Norbert
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