[discuss] Time to be more precise about Internet Governance

Jorge Amodio jmamodio at gmail.com
Tue Dec 31 12:32:11 UTC 2013


IMHO, yes.

-Jorge


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:07 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>wrote:

>
> On Tuesday 31 December 2013 01:06 AM, Brian E Carpenter 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.
>>
>
> Does it mean some level of agreement here that 'technical coordination'
> and 'public policy making' should/ will be seen as quite distinct areas
> (with a middle space perhaps of bridge/ interface issues), will different
> roles for different stakeholders - essentially different governance models
> (whether we want to use the term 'governance' or not).
>
> (Sorry, I know I am repeating this, but just trying to bring the
> discussion's focus on what I think are the tasks in front of the Brazil
> meeting,  which the 1net space is supposed to help facilitate...)
>
> The above formulation is also very significant, and a basic proposition
> that needs to be settled either way, because many think/ fear that ICANN/
> 1*'s effort in its engagement with the Brazil meeting is to extend the
> ICANN model of governance to the institutional needs of global Internet
> public policy making.
>
> To know that this is not intended, and indeed it is understood that the
> context and needs of the two spaces - including respective stakeholder
> roles - are quite different will be immensely useful (and in my case very
> comforting.)
>
> Parminder
>
>
>>      Brian
>>
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