[governance] Call for Participation: Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015

[McTim]

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:46 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:



>
> Meanwhile, of course, I wait for arguments that Internet ( unlike
> intellectual property!?) is a bottom up , private, etc etc, thing, and
> therefore its governance has to be different....


The simplest argument is that it HAS been bottom up, open,
transparent, consensus based decision making, etc for the last 40
years.

So it IS and HAS BEEN different since inception, and has been VERY successful.



-- 
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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