[governance] today's Wash Post editorial

[McTim]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:46 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday 22 January 2013 01:25 AM, McTim wrote:
>
> <snip>
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/keeping-the-internet-free/2013/01/20/48c7fdb8-4fa1-11e2-8b49-64675006147f_story.html
>
> So, the Washington Post thinks that the US did not sign the ITRs because, to
> quote the paper,
>
> "The United States objected to a resolution appended to the treaty saying
> that “all governments should have an equal role and responsibility for
> international Internet governance.” "
>
> US signed on precisely this sentence (it is from the Tunis Agenda) in 2005
> at the WSIS summit. (And it was Bush administration then!) I would think,
> now with many weeks past since the WCIT, as big and important a newspaper as
> the Washington Post would have the means to find out exactly why did the US
> not sign the ITRs.
>
> Why is it that even those who support US's decision not to sign the ITRs are
> not able to agree/ decide on exactly why did the US not sign the ITRs. More
> than a bit strange, isnt it.
>


I think this is a red-herring.

I would have thought you would have been pleased that a neo-liberal
institution like the WashPost acknowledged that:

"There are suspicions aplenty in the rest of the world that
this is the equivalent of U.S. control — suspicions that should not be
ignored. While the Internet cannot fall into the hands of those who
would censor and restrict it, the United States should put more effort
into remaking the current model so that it can serve what has become a
global infrastructure."


I think this is actually a very accurate description of the consensus
of this Caucus.


-- 
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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