IETF WAS Re: [governance] Enhanced Cooperation (was Re: reality check on economics)

[McTim]

On 5/29/12, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guru
>
> The questions you pose are important and not adequately addressed under
> this header, especially as regards principled positions. There is
> adequate attention paid to reform (which is essentially about
> "effectiveness") but less about principled (or dare I say it on this
> list "radical") positions. International law, or governance, is both
> about effectiveness AND legitimacy. Without this parallax view, these
> discussions become mired in convolutions as the subject matter (and/or
> goal) is not clearly articulated - i.e. terrain specificity.
>
> It is NOT possible to argue or intimate that ICANN is legitimate,


of course it is possible.


even
> though some try to do so. It may be effective, like IETF, but legitimacy
> will always be elusive, given current arrangements. Inadequacies abound
> about the lack of legitimacy, gTlds, intellectual property and also the
> thwarting of the will of many poor countries to have some legitimate
> control over CIR.

nation states should have zero "control" over CIRs, rich or poor!


-- 
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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