[governance] Blogpost: (Whose) Hand off (What) Internet? Some Reflections on WCIT 2012

[michael gurstein]

Good question McTim.  

At a normative/values level I do agree with the HOI folks except that I
think that their position fails in three ways for one reason as I think is
quite evident from what is currently transpiring at WCIT.

Because the "Hands off the Internet" folks don't go beyond the negative into
some positive vision/declaration of where/how they think the Internet should
be "governed" (beyond an untenable status quo)--the position fails by first
being contaminated by the blatant national/commercial self-interest of its
primary movers and bankers; second, it doesn't deal with the quite evident
financial inequities/assymetries that are resulting from the status quo; and
third it doesn't provide any guide posts for resolving the myriad of issues
that are emerging that require some sort of global
management/governance/resolution framework--again beyond an unsustainable
status quo.

Best,

M

-----Original Message-----
From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 6:01 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; michael gurstein
Subject: Re: [governance] Blogpost: (Whose) Hand off (What) Internet? Some
Reflections on WCIT 2012

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:30 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW
>
> http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/whose-hand-off-what-internet-
> some-r
> eflections-on-wcit-2012/



So, the HOI folks are right, but they are right for the wrong reasons?


--
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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