[governance] scope of "Internet governance" (was Re: Fwd: Why do US and EU trade negotiators hate the Berne Copyright Limitations and Exceptions?)

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 15:16:10 EST 2013


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:04 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ahh… How do we define "Governance of the Internet" ****
>
> ** **
>
> And there is the rub, if 20% or so of humanity (say 40-50-60% of all
> Internet users) is signed up to Facebook.com (or some equivalent numbers
> for Google.com or mPesa, or …) and .000000001 of humanity is signed up to
> bollow.ch then surely "quantity" becomes "quality"
>

I don't see how this follows.

Will you ask for differenet rules for FB vs bollow.ch?  What about in
registering the domain name, different rules?



> and particularly if activities are undertaken using those
> applications/built on those platforms that are "necessary" and "exclusive"
> i.e. they provide services or functions that are necessary and are not
> easily accessible in any other way.
>


I have yet to find anything on FB that is "necessary".

> ****
>
> ** **
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> At that point there is I would think, the need (as a matter of "public
> interest") for "*an organisation who told you what protocols you could
> and could not use"…*
>


At that point, there would need to be a discussion why these "necessary
services are on FB and not in the public domain.


-- 
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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