[governance] Blogpost: Multistakeholderism vs. Democracy: My Adventures in "Stakeholderland"

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at hserus.net
Fri Mar 22 03:26:36 EDT 2013


Nobody stops you or anyone else from discussing these

Do try to back rhetoric and ideology with facts though.

--srs (iPad)

On 22-Mar-2013, at 12:39, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> 
> Beware Riaz, you are stepping into another prohibited space of "do not discuss"
> 
> Do not discuss "US gov role in ICANN"
> 
> Do not discuss "google, facebook etc"
> 
> Do not discuss "technical community"
> 
> Do not discuss "issues of accountability and transparency of MS processes" 
> 
> Do not discuss. "ICANN's processes"
> 
> Do not discuss "OECD's global Internet policy making activities"
> 
> Dont you have something to say about a developing country government, UN or ITU.... 
> 
> parminder 
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday 22 March 2013 12:25 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> What jurisdictional issues?  In practice - where do you see USG actively interfering in ICANN affairs, except in broad concerns over governance where DOC / NTIA do set direction at times?
>> 
>> And do you see civil society and industry barred from an ICANN meet, ever?
>> 
>> --srs (iPad)
>> 
>> On 22-Mar-2013, at 3:34, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Intergovernmental hegemony. Not quite for me.
>>> 
>>> Formal equality is one thing, but too equalising given the current jurisdiction issues with ICANN etc.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2013/03/21 10:54 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Seems like until it happens we really do't know what it will be.
>>>> 
>>>> It could turn out to be a island of multistakeholder cooperation in a sea of inter-governmental hegemony.
>>>> 
>>>> avri
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