[governance] Re: Syria

[Andrea Glorioso]

Bill,

but doesn't this kind of horse trading already take place anyway, now
that the Internet is seen as a strategic component of geopolitical
strategies by the "heavy weights" (and increasingly, by mid- and light
weights, too)?

Ciao,

Andrea (speaking on a personal basis)

On 10/9/11, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2011, at 3:40 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
>
>> Also see the abstentions when reading the failed resolution and it is the
>> message that it sends which is far more pronounced and profound.
>
> including Brazil, India, and South Africa, which also opposed UN sanctions
> on Iran's "peaceful nuclear program" when the government there was busy
> hunting down and executing protesters.  But want a new UN body to develop
> global Internet policies and "integrate and oversee the bodies responsible
> for technical and operational functioning of the Internet, including global
> standards setting."  Then we can have intergovernmental horse trading over
> all aspects of global IG with Russia, China, et al linking voting deals on
> issues like their proposed code of conduct for acceptable Internet speech,
> TLDs, address assignments, standards, etc. to deals on sanctions and other
> geopolitical items.  That should help ensure a stable and open Internet…
>
> Bill
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t