[governance] another interesting IG piece in Forbes
parminder
parminder at itforchange.net
Fri Jan 27 00:44:27 EST 2012
On Thursday 26 January 2012 06:58 PM, John Curran wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2012, at 4:11 AM, McTim wrote:
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> Selecting one protocol over another turns out to be very difficult,
> and that's likely one of the major reasons that the IETF avoids making
> such decisions unless absolutely necessary. The result is that we have
> many, many competing standards adopted which then have to prove their
> actual worth in the darwinian marketplace. It is left to the reader
> whether selection via marketplace should be considered a "pure form
> of democracy" or not.
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No, it is not. . Social Darwinism has very negative connotations and is
kind of quite the opposite to democratic ideals. Unless of course the
information society discourse and social constructs overtake our
traditional democratic sensibilities, of which there is a well founded
fear that they may.
Technical standards need to be developed with just public interest in
view, which may involve listening to big market players but not acceding
to their partisan views. Markets choosing the right technical standards
is almost always an euphemism for the big market players choosing them.
Parminder
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