[discuss] ICANN policy and "Internet Governance"

[Mawaki Chango]

And there is also international coordination of public policy (not just
through treaty negotiation and signing but also bi-/multilateral agreements
such as the US trade agreement and other such tools as ITU Recommendations
which many countries may translate into national legislation/public
policies. I guess the same may apply to World Health Organization
particularly when there is an epidemic outbreak or something of that
magnitude.)

Although national authority (government) remains the single most decisive
point of control for enacting public policy, the outcome of such
international coordination is in most (or at least in a substantial number
of) countries the de facto public policy, as enactment or ratification is
just a matter of formality.


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On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:04 AM, David Cake <dave at difference.com.au> wrote:

>
> On 4 Jan 2014, at 6:32 am, Milton L Mueller <mueller at SYR.EDU> wrote:
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >> The part of Brian's paper that I strongly agreed with is that the term
> for many
> >> appears to be a catch-all for "anything related to the Internet about
> which I
> >> feel strongly Something Should Be Done".  I understood him to be
> arguing that
> >> it's not an actionable category, and I agree with him.
> >
> > It's true that "Internet governance" becomes indistinguishable from
> "Internet policy" for many people, if one is not careful and allows it to
> happen. For those of us more familiar with policy debates, however, 'public
> policy' typically means _national_ policy. We also tend to qualify the term
> "Internet governance" with the modifier "global Internet governance"
> although admittedly often that is implicit.
>
>         I don't think that this distinction is quite as Milton describes,
> because there certainly exist some bodies that would generally be
> classified as Internet governance, rather than public policy, bodies, that
> operate only at the national level and are not global - multi-stakeholder
> ccTLD bodies, for example.
>         But it is true that public policy is normally thought of as a
> national government led process, and Milton's distinction holds true most
> of the time.
>         Regards
>                 David
>
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