[governance] China's next-generation internet is a world-beater - tech - 10 March 2013 - New Scientist

[McTim]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> On 13/03/13 13:19, parminder wrote:
>
> In fact, I am often deeply touched by the deep value based work that goes on
> in the multilateral systems, for instance what I saw recently at a ECOSOC
> committee working on access to scientific knowledge. Such kind of work
> stands out even more when seen against the open and blatant private interest
> based discussions and deal making that mark the so called loosely structured
> private governance systems that dominate Internet governance.
>
> What is happening at the larger social-structural level, and which I
> consider as the greatest threat to democracy, is a clear move from public
> governance, based on social contract, to private governance, based on
> private, interest-based, contracts. And the shift is rather systemic.
>
>
> Not too long ago, Alejandro attacked me on an ISOC list over something that
> I had posted to the governance list, so I'm now going to return the favour
> and repost something that he recently posted to the ISOC list, which I think
> exemplifies the mindset that you are referring to:
>
> 4. Looking forward, we will have the WTPF and the Plenipot, and a number of
> other fora which are either already planned or in the making. Some of them
> are not strictly under the ITU umbrella, like the IGF; others are outside,
> like the OECD's reports and meetings. The Internet community must see these
> as bumps (sometimes tall hurdles!!) on the road to our single goal: keeping
> the Internet open, interoperable, end-to-end, able to evolve, and as a basis
> for permissionless innovation. Internet Governance must continue to evolve
> with the full range of stakeholders taking part and avoiding all excess
> attempts to control the Internet for a single party, be it political or
> private.
>
> 5. To that end we must continue to strengthen and make widely known the work
> of ISOC, the IETF, ICANN, the RIRs, the ccTLDs, MAAWG, APWG and the many
> other - existing or emerging - bodies and mechanisms that stem from the
> Internet community.
>
>
> So here we have it that only the "bodies and mechanisms that stem from the
> Internet community" are entitled to participate in global norm-setting,


I don't see where you get "only" from in that email.

-- 
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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