[governance] [bestbits] What is 1Net? Blog post by Paul Wilson of APNIC

michael gurstein gurstein at gmail.com
Sun Dec 1 11:18:22 EST 2013


+1

 

One way of approaching this is to distinguish between MS “governance”, MS “decision-making” and MS “discussions”.

 

Discussions provide input into and influence decision making and thus should include everyone involved in the issue.

 

Decision making to my mind should include among others those most impacted by the decisions being made.

 

Governance is about how the rules of the game within which the processes of influencing and decision making are determined.  Governance thus must be subject to democratic processes and procedures. In some cases decision making may by democratic processes be determined to most appropriately be MS, but by no means will this always and under every circumstance be the case.

 

M 

 

From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of parminder
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On Sunday 01 December 2013 09:05 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:

It's actually a confusion of domains to consider governments as "stakeholders" in the same sense that an individual, a civil society organization or a business or trade association is a stakeholder. Especially when governments are treated as if they are unitary actors who aggregate the interests of an entire nation.  

 

Governments qua governments are supposed to aggregate and represent all the "stakeholders" under their jurisdiction. To combine direct, representation of stakeholders with unitary national governments is to throw together two completely incompatible systems of representation. That is what so many people don't get about MSM


I fully agree with Milton here...

All our time in our domestic advocacy and political representation we (as in our organisation and networks) spend telling the governments (meaning those who occupy gov positions) that they cannot represent their own interests, they have to represent people's interest. That is what democratic government is about. Now, if I agree that government is a stakeholder like others, then they obviously are to represent their own interests and not of the people... This is why so much of mutlistakeholder concepts and lingo do not suit or fit within the democratic ideals and discourse... 

parminder 

 

 

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From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of Suresh Ramasubramanian [suresh at hserus.net]
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Why shouldn't they be?

--srs (iPad)


On 01-Dec-2013, at 14:08, Guru गुरु <Guru at ITforChange.net> wrote:

 

On 12/01/2013 11:02 AM, Paul Wilson wrote:

Thanks Suresh.  
 
Indeed, I was referring to the "Internet community" in the broadest sense, including all stakeholders.


are Governments included in this 'all stakeholders'

Guru

Paul.
 
 
On 30/11/2013, at 8:45 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian  <mailto:suresh at hserus.net> <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
 

Not speaking for Paul but the definition of Internet community he appears to refer to is quite open, and more importantly, does not seek to specifically exclude particular classes of people or organizations.
 
--srs (iPad)
 
On 30-Nov-2013, at 0:57, "michael gurstein"  <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com> <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
 

Thanks for the pointer to this very interesting post Nnenna.
 
Paul uses the term “Internet community” in several places and I’m curious what he means by it…
 
I have a feeling that we may not all have a similar definition (or that our definitions are evolving) and that that might be one reason why our discussions often go off the rails—we have different conceptions of who the audience or target group is for various of the policy issues that we address from time to time.
 
(I provided my own definition in my current blogpost, but I’m not sure that everyone here agrees with mine J and of course ISOC,  ICANN, IETF also all use the term “Internet community” and if those folks also want to chime in it would be greatly appreciated.
 
M
 
 
From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net [mailto:bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net] On Behalf Of Nnenna Nwakanma
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 8:21 AM
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Subject: [bestbits] What is 1Net? Blog post by Paul Wilson of APNIC
 
 
Just published here:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/2013112_what_is_1net_to_me/
 
N[MG>]   
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