[governance] Government involvement in Internet governance on November 4

[Garth Graham]

On 2011-10-26, at 7:28 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>From my perspective, the key problem with involving governments in core technical Internet governance and management is that they don't understand the technical and architectural concerns nor the processes
> 
> for building technical consensus. …….. What is terrible is the idea of giving governments increased authority over the Internet without them having the prerequisite understanding, respect for technical consensus building processes and ability to effectively participate there. 

But all governments across all sectors and issues make all decisions that way.  It has nothing to do with Internet Governance.  And, while technical consensus processes do have huge utility, they are only one dimension of operating in the environment of complex adaptive systems.  They have no more use in predicting or "managing" the outcomes of CASs, like the Internet itself and the "ecology" of Internet Governance, than anything else.

GG

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