[governance] Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation

[John Curran]

On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:56 AM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

> But, by including the two statements in the same paragraph, rather than as separate, are the organizations suggesting that recent proposals to build new infrastructure that avoids sending traffic via the U.S. and avoids U.S. monitoring and surveillance risks Internet fragmentation?

No, that is not the intent.  The plain reading that you noted ("Internet 
fragmentation is bad.  Monitoring and surveillance is bad") is all that 
was intended.  

Note that several of the organizations involved (ISOC, the RIRs) actively
promote development of local exchange points to improve network performance, 
and with the added benefit of avoiding traffic needlessly passing through 
other countries, and additional cables for capacity are similarly to be 
encouraged.

FYI,
/John



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