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At 02:37 02/04/2014, DAVID JOHNSON wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">And the key question for us is
who the contracts will be with -- and whether they will be voluntary (or
not) -- and whether they will constrain arbitrary uses of power.
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Dear David,<br><br>
The first question in this case is the jurisdiction. If code is law, this
means that law induces code. There is no mystery: the removal of the NTIA
transfers the jurisdiction from a politically leading Executive to the
legally applying Legislative. It is, therefore, ascertaining the US
political dominance as a US global adminance. Switching the internet from
a digital protectorate to a colony.<br><br>
The alternative to the US law is the international law (e.g. UDRP) being
applied by enhanced cooperation as unanimously decided at the WSIS. This
is what has been democratically decided in Dubai by the Multitude's
majority. The US/OECD wants to protect the former global order instead of
competing in the emerging one. The NTIA opposes its "government
free" diktat, and tries to impose a biased (through the selection
mechanism) MSism alternative.<br><br>
The question is, therefore, very well put: "whether they will be
voluntary [democratic] (or not [dominance])."<br><br>
Due to the importance of the internet in our lives, this is deciding for
a US dominated, a fragmented, or a new order world with a different
granularity. The status-quo strategy purposely leaves us with the
"US dominated vs. fragmented" dilemma by the impossibility of a
technical alternative. The internet architectural completion leads us to
a new stable order where the granularity is neither the States nor the
Stakeholder but rather the person. This is the WSIS "people
centered" information society consensus, where every person,
corporation, and State is on an equal footing. <br><br>
The trick we, the people, have been opposed for 35 years is that some
digital stakeholders (or SuperUsers' technical and political culture) are
more equal than others. I am sorry, but this is not the way the world,
internet, and namespaces are designed. You see it, for example, IRT the
root lie: you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the
people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. I
am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be
depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring
them the real facts. This is what the DNSA
(<a href="http://dnsa.org/">http://dnsa.org</a>) will be about, by the
Multitude for the Multitude.<br><br>
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right
to rise up, and shake off the existing governance, and form a new one
that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a
right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. This is
because we the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and the
courts, not to overthrow your US Constitution but to overthrow the men
who pervert that Constitution. These words are not mine and are
true.<br><br>
jfc<br><br>
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