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<p><font face="Verdana">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 ...
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/12/18 12:40 PM, parminder wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/12/18 3:08 AM, <a
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">The World Trade Organization might be another model which isn't ICANN
(a bag of contracts) but isn't the UN either.
No doubt other analogues could be dredged up.
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
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<p><font face="Verdana">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...</font>
We already suffer greatly from the fact that the first policy
framework ever around the Internet -- back in 1997 -- was the
US's '<a
href="https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/WH/New/Commerce/index.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">Framework for electronic global
commerce</a>' ... 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. <br>
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<p>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...</p>
<p>We do not want to further aggravate the original sin that US
policy makers did to take Internet/ digital governance to the
WTO....</p>
<p>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..</p>
<p> best, parminder <br>
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