[governance] Reply to Milton's blog post

[McTim]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:31 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Joy
>
> Thanks for your response....
>
> It is not claimed that states countries have human rights, or otherwise have
> rights " on an equal footing with the people or peoples they govern".


Are you sure?  Read the transcript again, it seemed to me to be
exactly what was claimed.


>
> However, rights of states are frequently mentioned in international treaties
> etc. See for instance one here signed by the US. Another document here
> speaks of rights of states regarding underwater cables and pipelines, an
> issue very connected to the present discussion.
>
> It was also open to delegates at Dubai to say, to the statement of right of
> member states to access internationl telecom we will like to add the right
> to people to access international telecom...... That would have really given
> then the moral high ground...

That text was tried and failed.

 In fact putting right to access in the ITRs
> and other ITU documents should have been one of the main advoacy pitches of
> the civil society.

Agreed.


-- 
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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