[governance] Potential IGC letter to US gov (was Re: NET NEUTRALITY AND MORE)

[McTim]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:52 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 28 May 2013 09:34 PM, William Drake wrote:
>>
>>
>> Under your able baton, the caucus is currently unable to organize a
>> meeting during an IGF consultation, unable to provide a written input to the
>> consultation or the MAG meeting, unable to provide an input the WTPF, unable
>> to provide a letter to the chair of the WGEC on meeting openness (luckily
>> he's willing to try without the support), unable to do any of the things it
>> used to do that garnered broad support from the diverse membership,
>> consistent with our purpose in starting this in Feb. 2003.
>
>
> What was this purpose, never to question US hegemony??


Is letting the IANA contract and checking that the IANA followed its
own processes in doing rootzone changes actually hegemony?


>
>
>>   But you would like to write to the US government and demand that it
>> explain itself to you and Parminder?  Seriously?
>
>
> This is more blunt than i thought IGC participants would ever get about
> supporting US hegemony. Interesting, very interesting! Havent we so many
> times asked numerous UN agencies to explain themselves to us.. Isnt that
> what a civil society groups is all about... Seeking accountability, and
> asking the powerful to explain themselves. And here someone is making jokes
> about an effort to seek accountability, yes, asking a powerful entity to
> 'explain itself' to us, mere people/ public;... You used the right term.
>
>  Well, we asked the Indians at the IGF to explain themselves to us on their
> CIRP proposal. And they did, thoroughly..... and many other such things....
> But never the US, not even in its expressly global governance role... Only
> those developing countries, and their organisations. They can be asked to
> explain themselves, never the US.


but I just told you I asked them last summer, and the answer was that
they are in favor of continued evolution.


-- 
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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