[governance] BBC: May setting out plans to monitor internet use in UK

[Avri Doria]

Yes members states can make reservations.  And if enough of them are doing that we may end up with ITR that apply only to a little over half of the world.  that should work well for a unified Internet.

But I know you are getting tired of this, so I will say little else.
But, know, I don't consider it a game.

avri


Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> I thought WCIT was a vote, not consensus.
>
>[Milton L Mueller] It  is my understanding that Member states can take
>reservations against anything they object to.
> 
>> I know that you and the NYT have told me I need have no concern, but
>for
>> now I just don't see it that way.
>
>[Milton L Mueller] I am getting tired of this game. No one said there
>was no need for concern. ISOC and the USG are now paying the price for
>exaggerating and distorting the real concerns. What people are saying
>is that fears of a concerted and systematic takeover of all of Internet
>governance by the ITU are being exaggerated, and the idea that the WCIT
>is fundamentally about censorship and taking control of Internet
>governance generally and CIRs specifically, are simply wrong. Read my
>entire blog series if you want to see what I think the real concerns
>are. And as many people are now saying, it can be dangerous to
>exaggerate the fears and to misidentify the real concerns. If you go
>into WCIT all ginned up about protocols and it's really about charging
>mechanisms that you don't understand, you are going to be ineffective.


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