[governance]On strategic thinking again (was Re: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/net-us-un-internet-idUSBRE8AQ06320121127 )

[Norbert Bollow]

Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it might be useful if the various discussants involved in the
> WCIT/ITU debate were to indicate which of these categories they would
> fall into:
> 
>                 1. no regulation of the Internet period
> 
>                 2. possible regulation/global governance of the
> Internet in certain areas for certain issues but not by the ITU
> 
>                 3. regulation of the Internet in certain identified
> issue areas by the ITU

My view differs from all of those, so I'd like to choose

4. since the boundary line between "Internet governance" and "the
various activities of governments and international organizations which
are not directly aimed at governance or regulation of the Internet" is
becoming increasingly blurred (telecommunications convergence is only
the tip of this iceberg IMO), we should take a step back, and think
about public interest goals and objectives (stating them in a
technology-neutral form that avoids to use the word "Internet" or any
explicit or implicit reference to the TCP/IP protocol stack), and on
the basis of that about strategies (I'd be very surprised if there is
a single public-interest objective in the world today for which the
Internet, together with some implied assumptions on what the Internet
is assumed to be like, isn't part of every reasonable solution
strategy), and on the basis of that about roles and needed reforms of
institutions including the ITU, as well as about the formal, legal
establishment of whatever principles may be needed (in addition to the
many aspects of international human rights law that apply to the
Internet).

Greetings,
Norbert

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