[discuss] ICANN policy and "Internet Governance"

[Jorge Amodio]

>> On 02-Jan-14 19:23, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> What I still do not understand, and where I agree with Brian's paper,
>> is what it adds to call any of that "Internet Governance".
> 
> I do not see the problem with the term.  It is not as if it had any previous meanings or any previous usage baggage.
> 
> It is not like Internet governance (Ig) meant anything before we all started trying to define it.  In some sense it is a new term that is there for us, the stakeholders, to define as we need it defined. Remember the WSIS defintion is just a working definiton, a draft definition.

It is not what it means or represent to "us" but to others that are not regular participants on the IG discussion. As it is clearly demonstrated by the recent NYT article. 

-Jorge