[governance] Spanish - Position by IT for Change and some other NGOs on enhanced cooperation

[parminder]

On Thursday 29 August 2013 03:39 PM, JFC Morfin wrote:
> At 10:57 29/08/2013, parminder wrote:
>> For friends more comfortable in Spanish, below is a Spanish 
>> translation of the proposed joined statement and also enclosed..... 
>> parminder
>
> Thank you for this. Very helpful for some people in my surrounding.
> I send on this list too the comment I made on the cover letter of this 
> key contribution.
> jfc

Thanks jfc, comments and suggestions are most welcome.... BTW, the cover 
letter is not part of the statement for which support is sought. Though 
comments noted.  parminder
>
> ----
>
> Dear Parminder,
>
> I am very sorry, but this time I will disagree.
>
> 1. "there is deep discomfort among almost all countries, other than 
> the US" is inappropriate if you do not define in MSist terms what is a 
> country. The sentence makes sense only if the meaning is not the same 
> (governement, or corporates, or people, or activists, or press, etc.) 
> for the US and for the other States.
>
> 2. The internet is a public road. Some are walking on it, and others 
> are driving on it. This is ruled by the Internet Traffic code, which 
> gathers protocols, governance agreements, national statutes, 
> regulations, ordinances, and rules that have been adopted by the 
> stakeholders and that they can enforce. If you want to be a dominant 
> in this game of the road, you must start by building yourself a truck 
> and start bumping some bumpers.
>
> What I want to make clear is that the governance of the internet has 
> nothing to do with the data the internet transports, which users 
> partner together, and who goes to bed with who. I totally understand 
> that you feel betrayed in the picture that you have painted yourself 
> of what the internet should be. The internet is NOT and has never been 
> a democratic dream. It is an imperfect technology that everyone and 
> every organization may use the way he/she/it can. Snowden revealed 
> nothing that we had ignored, and nothing worse than what banks do, and 
> that the press publishes on people.
>
> The only thing you can do is:
>
> - either ethitechnically redesign parts of the digital technology for 
> simultaneously making it so that:
>    - what you want costs far less/is safer, so that everyone wants and 
> uses it
>    - what you dislike costs more to get once it is used by everyone 
> than the benefits one can obtain from it (like some did with the IPv6 
> they disliked :-))
>
> - or to get yourself strong enough to be able to deter those who do 
> things you dislike. Maybe you can call the AFL-CIO and discuss with 
> the UTU as to how to make it legal. Or the Majors.
>
> Making "the internet a vehicle for greater prosperity, fairness, and 
> social justice for all" is the elected politicians’ job. Our own job 
> is to decide which one to support and vote for, and give them ideas 
> and surely prove these ideas good.
>
> For the time being, I support “an Open-Prism for all”. Not just for 
> the NSA (NB: a technical note, tapping paid internet operators only 
> means that ARPA have not yet reached a top intellition technology. 
> Once they have it, they will infer private information from the 
> available data and help you correct your typos in your personal mails. 
> There is nothing which can be hidden, this is in the Gospel).
>
> Enjoy! We live in an exciting world ruled by a new paradigm, the 
> OpenStand RFC 6852 paradigm.
> If you want  to know what is actually happening inside  (and not 
> through) the internet: 
> http://iucg.org/wiki/OpenStand_context_vs._standardizing_IDNA2003. 
> Commercial sponsors are again trying to control languages, and thereby 
> the people and cultures along the roadside. That is for real.
>
> Anyway, politicians and corporates love we spend time sending them 
> letters instead of working on people centered operational protocols.
>
> Cheers!
> jfc
>

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