[governance] Request for Information [ICT4 health/ E Health]

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<CAJwbTiDE-i87zsJfhHWo3=NNqQXhK=J4HSVbopxr=_v6nBMPsQ at mail.gmail.com>, at 
09:32:22 on Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro 
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> writes
>If the "sms" runs and is facilitated across the IP Core (such as NGNs) 
>does this qualify it to be part of the internet

We looked into this kind of issue ten years ago when debating how to 
draft the UK Communications Act. People were worried that regulation 
designed for broadcast television would inadvertently apply to the 
Internet. Other were worried that if you specifically excluded IP 
services from the law, then TV companies would send their content from 
studio to transmitter by IP, and escape regulation.

The answer seemed to be that one should ignore the technology, and 
concentrate on what the service were.

Which is why it's of concern if "Internet Governance" is thought to be 
the same as "TCP/IP governance".

Both content and conveyance need governance, although it's very clear 
that people's worries about the exact same content can be coloured by 
the conveyance by which it arrives.
-- 
Roland Perry
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