[discuss] Time to be more precise about Internet Governance

Scott Brim scott.brim at gmail.com
Mon Dec 30 21:05:26 UTC 2013


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> Thanks for all your comments.
>
>>  Unfortunately, we don't have much widespread recognition of globally shared social
>>  principles and norms applicable to the Internet, so governments increasingly look
>>  to the technical coordination tasks as a means for accomplishing their public policy
>>  objectives.
>
> That is very true and in a sense it completely states my worries.
> Technical coordination of a global system is never going to accomplish
> widely varying public policy objectives.

and it's an important task to help governments understand that.



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