Quo Vadis IPv6 - Was: Re: [governance] IPv4 - IPv6 incompatiblity (was Re: Towards Singapore)

[parminder]

On Sunday 19 June 2011 11:25 AM, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> On 06/18/2011 09:48 PM, parminder wrote:
>
>> On a more practical note, Karl makes a clear case of how the Internet
>> has become lumpy and today largely consists of a few mega spaces
>> completely owned and run by corporations.
>
> Actually I didn't say exactly that.

Fair enough.Though that is what I read between the lines when you spoke 
of the lumpy internet. You do however agree that what Is say is largely 
the trend, right?
>
> (snip)
>
> Moving away from IPv6:
>
> Personally, I prefer internet structures that enhance the ability of 
> individuals to define their own mode and means of communication.
>
> In addition, I believe that it is useful to try to convince people to 
> look beyond the baubles of their apps and make them understand the 
> value, to each of them personally, of preserving end to end principle. 
> However, the pessimist in me says that people will not look beyond 
> their baubles and that thus the end-to-end principle is doomed.
>
> Moreover I have not seen enough successful examples of benevolent 
> philosopher kings that I would feel safe irrevocably handing over my 
> own personal ability to shape my use of the internet to some body that 
> claims that it defends (and defines) the public benefit.

A very typical liberal paradox. You have an acute problem at hand, but 
you dont know what to do about it, because the only possible way forward 
involves deeply political processes. And you are ready to leave the 
problem unsolved rather than dilute your ideology. However, and that is 
the political economy of the problem, for others, the net neutrality 
principle may have much deeper essentialist implications - on their 
economic, social, cultural and political future - and they may not be as 
ready to give in.

BTW, though I understand the government-distrust, it is no philospher 
king to whom you give power unrevokably, it is the social democracy 
model, which is largely responsible for earning and securing the level 
of economic/ social as well as civic/ political freedoms that North 
American and West European countires transitoned to from the period of 
the wars to the last decades of the 20th century. I have great problem 
with the elitist ennui with this political model among some being passed 
off globally as an anti-institutionalist/ anti-political philosophy with 
all its lure, and the damage it does to the interests of the people in 
the geo-political South.

parminder

>
>     --karl--
>
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