[governance]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/net-us-un-internet-idUSBRE8AQ06320121127

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

This NPR piece is of interest,  Draws a parallel between Syria disconnecting itself from the Internet and WCIT submissions by some countries

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/29/166186762/widespread-internet-outages-reported-in-syria

--srs (iPad)

On 01-Dec-2012, at 3:45, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2012, at 12:26 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> That challenge is to find a way that we all globally, can allow the Internet to fulfill the possibilities for all of us that it presents (and in ways that are meaningful to all of us in our global diversity) -- and that means finding a way to reconcile sometimes extremely divergent interests and perspectives concerning for example, what issues are important/necessary to resolve and where they can be resolved and who/how should be involved in resolving them.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> The challenge is that the Internet is truly a global system, and we lack good mechanisms
> for development of true agreement on public policy issues when applied to a global scope.
> There are some feedback loops which operate reasonable well in the context of a single 
> country. (For example, the response of consumers, and civil society on their behalf, to 
> "bad" decisions by businesses with respect to privacy results in lots of attention, and
> sometimes even results changes to the errant business practices.)
> 
> In an ideal world, there would be a way to encourage productive discussion of the various
> public policy principles that should be applicable to Internet communications on a global
> scope, and such discussions would multistakeholder in nature, open in participation, and 
> transparent in the processes used to reach outcomes (there is a little bit of a challenge in 
> accomplishing such, since making the final determinations of what is appropriate public 
> policy is one of areas that has been considered the realm of governments, and yet we are
> collectively unsure if that model continues to work in our new highly connected world)
>   
> If we could produce clear statements of public policy principles, and the statements were 
> made known to existing Internet governance institutions, then they would quite likely be 
> considered in development of the various technical standards and policies that we need 
> to keep the Internet running.  Likewise, if folks working on such standards and policies 
> took significant measures to keep governments and civil society aware of the ongoing 
> developments, it would help in avoiding conflicts between Internet practices and the 
> globally accepted principles in any given public policy area.
> 
> /John
> 
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