[governance] Re: [IRPCoalition] Blogpost: Civil Society and the Emerging Internet Cold War: Non-Alignment and the Public Interest

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 18:37:44 EST 2013


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
> McTim, at a minimum Russia and China are not dumb -- the Internet has become
> significant part of their economic development as well, and universalization
> is central to this process.


They are both also keen to take control over naming and addressing in
the "national segments" as well as to censor what their citizenry can
and can't see or produce content wise.

Why would we want to support these Member States agendas?

>The "etc" in your phrase is dubious...

Are there no other like minded Member States?  Many of not most of the
African States were pulled into the vortex of the agenda set by the 3
I named.  How is that dubious?

-- 
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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