[bestbits] Re: [governance] IGC press release in response to the NTIA announcement of March 14

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Policy considerations, yes.  Power plays to gain control and "steak instead of stake", and backbiting instead of collegial working together, no definitely not desirable.  

--srs (iPad)

> On 18-Mar-2014, at 13:07, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org> wrote:
> 
> Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com> [2014-03-16 13:37:31]:
>> Hello
>> 
>>> IGC supports the multistakeholder policymaking model to the extent that it
>>> does not contradict the ideals of democracy, including due consideration to
>>> the rights of minorities (in the context of Internet policy)
>> 
>> 
>> "to the extent that Mutli-stakeholder model contradict the ideals of
>> democracy"?  Multi-stakeholder model is expanded democracy, the next step
>> in the further evolution of democracy. Is there room for this model to
>> contradict the ideals of democracy???
> 
> Yes. A consensus model without a rights framework that safeguards minorities can be harmful to minorities.
> 
>> "consideration of rights of minorities" - If this is a Global process, open
>> for participation from all stake-holders, from every nation, the policies
>> that would emerge out of the process is bound to be balanced. The intention
>> behind this thought about the "rights" of minorities might be noble, but as
>> unintended consequences, this idea of special attention could
>> lead to politicization of the process.
> 
> You mean to say that Internet governance can be devoid of politics?  I don't see how that is either possible nor why that would be desirable.
> 
> 
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> Pranesh Prakash
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