[governance] JNC perspective on making Internet governance democratic (was Re: URGENT: Last call...)

[McTim]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:02 PM, <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> > On 21/11/2014 5:22 am, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> >> JNC certainly has every intention of working hard to convince many of
> >> those who are currently unconvinced of the importance and feasibility
> >> of making Internet governance democratic. Greetings, Norbert
> >
> > Whilst such evangelical zeal is - I suppose - admirable, do you really
> > think that is going to be productive, rather than just compounding the
> > discord you have already caused?  As you know full well, none of those
> > whom you are addressing accept for a moment that their ideal of
> > multi-stakeholder Internet governance is undemocratic, as JNC insists it
> > is.
>
> Simple claims matter little. Lets put the proposition that your (and your
> associates') style multi-stakeholderism is democratic (or not) to a simple
> practical check.
>
> Do you *not* advocate a system for dealing with global Internet related
> public policies whereby corporates will have a veto on agenda shaping -
> meaning on letting an issue go on the agenda or not?
>


The answer, which you refuse to accept is that in a consensus based
multi-equal
stakeholder setting, no one has a veto.

So the answer is "no" for me, No on on this list, or any CS list that I am
aware
of has advocated for such a system.
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