[governance] [bestbits] Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers

[Mueller, Milton L]

Parminder:

Too much here seems to be hanging on one point that I do not understand what is a p2p technical architecture :). Even though I have said that I did know it, and I would expect people to take such a statement at face value.

MM: This is not worth spending a lot of time on, but no, I would not take such a claim at face value. Lots of people claim they know something, but don’t.  And someone who describes email as a P2P architecture is clearly confused about the topic. You should thank David for his helpful explanation, learn something, and move on.

I keep hoping that this Northern project of building the capacity of ignorant people in the South would have some expiry date somewhere, but it does not seem to.

MM: Let me remind you that no one is accusing “the South” of making a mistake, the charge was directed specifically at you, as an individual. I know you like the think of yourself as “the South” personified but does anyone else? It’s rather petty to play the identity politics card to draw attention away from your own failings.


This point is rather more substantial. However, still an allegation of a 'confusion' that I do not have. In fact, I myself insist that we do not use technical governance to leverage political solutions,

MM: Sorry, but I would still have to say you are deeply confused.  People with experience of governance and/or with the history of governance of large technical system know that political/institutional solutions and technical systems have to be congruent. Political or technical, if you want to regulate you have to know what it is you are regulating and how it works. If you don’t know how things work, you won’t know where the politics reside.

Ironically, you were the one who started this thread by couching a political argument in technical terms. The current internet was worse, you said, because it was less P2P and more concentrated. You said that apps were more closed technically, etc. So after making half-baked claims about how the technical system is evolving you shouldn’t be complaining when people expect you to know your tech.

Parminder, political correctness doesn’t trump everything. In other words, if you think that the ardor of your (1970s-vintage) “progressive” religion exempts you from the discipline of knowing what you are talking about, you’re wrong. Maybe you will rally some True Believers looking for a guru but on the whole this is an ideologically diverse, skeptical and secular environment and you can expect your claims to be subject to critical scrutiny.

--MM
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