Additonal issues RE: [governance] Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation

[michael gurstein]

John,

I have two (but related) additional issues with the Montevideo document

The first is the uncritical acceptance of the notion ("reality") of what is
termed "multistakeholder cooperation".. Given the degree to which that
term/concept as yet remains ill-defined, non-formalized, contested,
ambiguous etc. etc. to use it in this way without for example, having an
addiitonal point recommending some degree of more formally framing/anchoring
the notion raises significant questions concerning the rest of the
statement.  If "MS cooperation" is to the active agent for resolving issues
and we don't have a clear and broadly agreed to notion of what we mean by MS
cooperation then we really have little at all.

Associated with this is the failure to recognize the significance of the
NSA's subversion of the IETF process. If the NSA chose to subvert that "MS"
process in the interests of their broad goal of (according to General
Alexander) "Information dominance", then what other MS process might they
have or have not subverted in pursuit of the same goal and on what basis can
we trust or rely on any other MS processes in their current form going
forward.

In the absence of more "formalized" MS processes which include transparency,
accountablity and (similarly transparent and accountable processes of)
legitimation it seems, shall we say a wee bit "hopeful" to be relying on
these processes to be themselves ways of resolving these self-same issues.

M

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FYI,
/John




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