[governance] WCIT melt down

[Roland Perry]

In message <50CC7EB3.2020502 at itforchange.net>, at 19:14:19 on Sat, 15 
Dec 2012, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes
> I have read McTim and John Curran suggest that they would want non 
>government stakeholders vote at WCIT kind of platforms. Is this really 
>what we want (even outside core technical coordination/ policy spaces 
>like ICANN or IETF)?

Voting seems to be an emotive issue. We've seen that in the ITU context 
this week.

I didn't think the IEFT was ever reduced to a vote, and we know the IGF 
can't vote because it has no formal membership.

RIR/ICANN boards vote, as does the ARIN advisory council (as far as I 
can tell, but corrections welcome). And the RIPE NCC membership votes on 
policy matters from time to time (in their General Meetings, rather than 
the RIPE meeting).

The problem with democracy is that it's often confused with 
representative democracy, so are we expecting non-government 
stakeholders to vote in their own right, or through representatives?

Several billion Internet users can easily out-vote 192 governments.
-- 
Roland Perry

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