[discuss] ICANN policy and "Internet Governance"

Fri Jan 3 13:47:21 UTC 2014

On 03-Jan-14 03:11, Jorge Amodio wrote:
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> One more comment
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>> we are doing for ourselves as a multistakeholder organization. The NSA fiasco makes doing ICANN's job harder.  That makes it an Internet governance, for want of a better term, issue.
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> Why are we focusing so much on the NSA fiasco ? What about the China fiasco, the Russia fiasco, the Turkey fiasco, the India fiasco, the Tunis fiasco, and so on ?
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I can think of 2 reasons:

- We in the US are asking people to trust that we are a benign steward, 
a trusted neutral broker for the Internet.  I have not heard of the 
others you mention do that.

- We in the US have been holier than though about our goodness.

Oh, and a third reason: because it was such a pervasive attack on global 
human rights.  None of the other examples have that scope - this was a 
pivotal event, despite what we may have known, or not known, about 
governments and the way they behave.

avri