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

[McTim]

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

>  I might add one other thing.
>
> When Paul Wilson and other representatives of I* governance organizations
> happily concede that 'governments are stakeholders too' I believe that what
> they are doing is proposing a political bargain, not a coherent mode of
> governance.
>

or perhaps simply describing reality as they experience it?

As a member of the ARIN AC, you have first hand experience with Government
types being active in RIR policy formation.  IS this not a "coherent form'
of IG?




>
>  In other words, they are trying to reach an accommodation with
> nation-states that will preserve key elements of the status quo by
> reassuring state actors that they will not be left out of or excluded from
> the system. By calling states-as-unitary-actors "stakeholders" who must be
> specially accommodated through contradictory and dysfunctional arrangements
> like the GAC, they are literally compromising what we know about how MS
> governance works in order to buy greater political support for the new
> institutions from the old institutions.
>

I agree that "separate and unequal"  a la GAC, is suboptimal

-- 
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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