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

[Ginger Paque]

Norbert, I understand your point (I think), but I wonder if that boils down
to #2? (Which I agree with Ian is what we want, even if I differ on the
strategy needed to get there). Mike's 3 options are simplifications, but
the are useful for this discussion (at least for me). Can you put #4 into a
simpler statement, if you don't agree that it is part of #2 (and, please,
not 'none of the above' :)).

I like this step back from the complexities. Generalizations sometimes have
a place for a synthesis/snapshot of the big picture to get things in
perspective, without implying that it gives an accurate or complete view.

Thanks, gp

Ginger (Virginia) Paque

VirginiaP at diplomacy.edu
Diplo Foundation
Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme
www.diplomacy.edu/ig
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On 28 November 2012 02:15, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> 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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