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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Milton and thanks for your note.<br>
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On 3/11/14, 6:31 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:<br>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">What you described in your
response were forms of governmental _<i>participation</i>_
in IETF standardization activities. I think that’s fine, as
long as governments participate on the basis of individuals
with expertise and an ability to contribute something of
value to the development of protocols and standards. I am
completely opposed to any situation in which governments
participate as “overseers” of standardization processes, or
any process to require technological designs to “conform to
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Again, speaking for myself I agree with the above, for many reasons,
not least of which is brittleness. If a protocol only suits a
single local policy, then it will be only locally applicable. There
are times when protocols DO intersect policy. I gave some examples
earlier. In these cases, it's important for a broad set of
interested parties (dare I say "government participants"?) to engage
so that we have a sufficiently general approach.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Behind my view
is a more academically derived argument about the ‘code is
law’ line. In certain naïve manifestations, the belief that
code is law or that protocols have politics can lead to a
misplaced belief that if we design standards and
architecture right then we will have no social problems. We
can have, for example, “privacy by design,” or “freedom in a
box” regardless of powerful political and economic forces
pushing in the opposite direction. The reality is that
standards and technology can be, and often are, overcome or
distorted by politics and economics, and – most importantly
– that you can rarely predict the actual social impact of a
technology when it is just in the early design stages. In
practical effect, political oversight of design will be
inherently conservative; had there been “oversight” of the
development of the Internet standards, for example, the
telephone companies and governments would have designed them
to protect vested interests in the control of
communications. Disruptive technologies occur precisely
because no one understands their ultimate societal impact
and/or no one in established authority has any say about it.
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Thank you. One of the early leaders on the Internet, Mike O'Dell,
would point out that it is hard to predict a paradigm shift. We
have seen many in a relatively short period of history.<br>
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Eliot<br>
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