[At-Large] Say Whut!

[parminder]

BTW, ICANN basic nature and structure also proceeds from this 'original
sin' of casting the Internet as it was in the US's mentioned policy
framework, and its sequels ...


On 17/12/18 12:40 PM, parminder wrote:
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> On 17/12/18 3:08 AM, bzs at TheWorld.com wrote:
>> The World Trade Organization might be another model which isn't ICANN
>> (a bag of contracts) but isn't the UN either.
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>> No doubt other analogues could be dredged up.
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>> Granted the WTO is a system of multinational nation-state treaties but
>> nonetheless it exhibits parallels to what some are expressing in a
>> supranational governance body. In particular dispute resolution
>> mechanisms.
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> For WTO to be the primary body to arbitrate Internet/ digital issues
> would be first to declare the Internet, and the digital arena
> generally, to be primarily a commercial space and issue, which would
> be suicidal... We already suffer greatly from the fact that the first
> policy framework ever around the Internet -- back in 1997 --  was the
> US's 'Framework for electronic global commerce
> <https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/WH/New/Commerce/index.html>'
> ... Apart from declaring the Internet as primarily a commercial space,
> t ordained that the 'private sector shall lead' and governments should
> stay as far away as possible, and also, in consonance, called for the
> Internet and electronic commerce to be a tariff free zone.
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> In short, the Internet was declared as essentially neo-liberal, and as
> the Internet and digital has permeated every sphere and arena, it
> indeed has become an exceptionally strong no-liberalising force over
> the last two decades. It should be no coincidence that this period has
> also seen the steepest rise in equalities ever across the world, which
> underlies much of the social and political unrest that we witness today...
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> We do not want to further aggravate the original sin that US policy
> makers did to take Internet/ digital governance to the WTO....
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> Internet should primarily be recognised as a collaborative social
> space, which inter alia also allows commercial interactions and
> economic reorganisation. Its rules and regimes should be informed with
> this first principle. And that would require a very different kind of
> international governance of the Internet/ digital, which, if there is
> appetite here for that, we can discuss..
>
>       best, parminder
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