[governance] Forbes Piece on the Google Campaign

[Garth Graham]

On 2012-12-05, at 11:50 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
 it might be good if you knew a bit more about who Jody Westby is and what she stands for

In that Forbes article, Jody Westby says:
> [U.S. Government] ...  goes on to declare that the groups that have long played an important role in the development of the Internet, such as the Internet Society, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), “are most capable of addressing issues with the speed and flexibility required in this rapidly changing Internet environment.” One is left to wonder how these groups are going to be able to do this without interacting with all of the communications providers that actually deliver content. Without the interconnectivity and interoperability of networks, content will sit on servers. 

Actually, "Without the interconnectivity and interoperability of networks," this one here is left to wonder how any discussion of what the Internet is and does, and how it is steadily driving the cost of transporting "content" towards zero, thus blowing away the business plans of communications carriers, is even possible.  Also "content" is NOT created "in " the interoperable networks.  It's created at the edges (I and thou), where the desire and will and public benefit (i.e if you must, market demand) to interconnect and interoperate exists.

GG


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