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

[michael gurstein]

McTim, it seems to me that you (and others) argue long and hard against
management/regulation of the Internet except (as in this case) when you
don't.

 

And then having accepted the (obvious) need for some sort of
management/regulation of at least certain aspects of the Internet why you
(etc.) should expect that others (the rest of the world for example) should
accept your definition of what those "exceptions" should be and where they
should (or rather should not) be adjudicated leaves me a bit puzzled.

 

M

 

From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:30 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; michael gurstein
Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian; Ian Peter; Ginger Paque
Subject: Re: [governance]
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/net-us-un-internet-idUSBRE8AQ06320
121127

 

 

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:53 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
wrote:

No question, Suresh (and McTim) but you/they can't have it both ways i.e.
vehemently denouncing regulation/governance ("keep your hand off the
Internet") etc.etc. on the one hand and then practicing it (if only
implicitly) on the other. 

 

I'm only trying to have it one way.   I feel gov'ts have far too much
control over what we say and do online.  I don't want an intergovernmental
body setting global Internet policy.

 

 

I would have thought, if the option is in fact #2 (or #3) as of course, any
rational actor would I believe have to accept; that if one doesn't like a
particular venue -- what does one suggest as an appropriate (globally
acceptable) alternative venue(s)--particularly since the current (default)
position seems to be seen as unacceptably self-serving by so many.

 

 

Accepting #2 which as I have said before is the current status quo does not
mean that one accepts the need for further global Internet Governance
mechanisms.

 

I do not find #3 acceptable.

 

I've been singing the same song for years, what is it that you don't
understand about my position?

 

-- 
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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