[governance] it's not a "bogeyman" if it's a real threat!

[Fouad Bajwa]

My question in this whole chaos is that the world was quiet while DPI
and Trunk terminating exchange point surveillance was being
implemented. When many of the authoritarian regimes had completed such
projects, then they started sharing it with each other in scientific
and technology research sharing activities. Now after a couple years
when they are at WCIT/ITRs there is an outcry.

I agree the cry is valid for a piece of the DNS system pie but when
you look at Iran and whats it doing with the Internet there then this
becomes a secondary thought.

I can visualize countries as point-of-presence across the Internetwork
map and each pop can have a different network infrastructure if they
wanted but what keeps them in the loop is the natural common resource
sharing capacity but at the same time they are threatened by the
pluralism, a form of innovation that happens at the ends of the
network, from reaching their citizenry by the citizenry and disrupting
public order etc....

I wonder if someone has seen a Pakistani delegation at the WCIT in
Dubai and just share in on what they've been up to as so far we only
know here that they didn't bother to go in the first place, why would
they, the internet and mobile networks can be switched off anytime as
a need to maintain law and order, the ITR's seemingly don't impact
them.

I sometimes enjoy the fact of the disconnect and distance on Internet
Governance issues between the developing south and the developed
north. Would anyone bother about the DNS at this point in the
developing south where there are mostly authoritarian regimes already
blocking, censoring and filtering so much content and URLs while
punishing the citizenry in parallel? I also guess the developing south
should now start grouping up separately as well during WSIS followups,
IGFs, ITU meetings etc because somehow this disconnect and divide on
issues is becoming painfully disturbing.

-- FoO-Da-Bytes!



On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 9:14 AM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://news.dot-nxt.com/2012/12/14/leaked-document-confirms-fears
>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/authoritarian-regimes-push-for-larger-itu-role-in-dns-system
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
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