[governance] wsis 10 closing ceremony speech

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

It takes doing and talking rather than just talking, as mctim says

--srs (htc one x)



On 1 March 2013 8:40:39 PM McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excellent speech overall, I have just one nit to pick:
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:02 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>
> >  All this has happened in the same decade that the Internet ought to have
> > been been equalising social and economic opportunity. We need to sit back
> > and reflect,what went wrong?Why did the Internet, and the Information
> > Society phenomenon not do what it was supposed to do?
> >
>
> The Internet did exactly what it was supposed to do, pass packets from one
> endpoint to another.  Asking it to do more threatens that role.
>
> If people want to equalise social and economic opportunity VIA the
> Internet, well more power to them, but let's not conflate the two.
>
> While all y'all were talking in Paris about Internet Governance, hundreds
> of folks actually did the hard work of Internet coordination, collaboration
> and communication for the past 10 days in Singapore @APRICOT/APNIC.
>
> You can read a very good draft history of those bodies here:
>
> http://www.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/58903/APNIC-History-1992-1995-d01-20130217.pdf
>
> --
> 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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