[At-Large] (No so) Serious Allegations

[JFC Morfin]

At 01:18 28/11/2008, Yassin Mshana wrote:
>Internet is an International Network.Period. (maybe and unless we 
>link upwith other planets!?

Dear Yassin,
This is not a technical definition. It is a fact.

>This decentralisation/ decetralization or whatever it may be called 
>- is not  and will not be for the benefit of the global community 
>(or will it be?)

Decentralisation is the IETF doctrine and core value (RFC 3935). The 
problem we face today is this an outdated concept. Hence the 
constaints imposed on the people of the world (be essence there is 
not such a thing as the "global community": this is the mankind).

>For once the world has discovered something common for all - what is 
>the problem?

May will you want to consider the IETF, ICANN, ITU, GAC, IGF, ISOC, 
etc. to list the problems this discovery leads to.

>Is it because everybody might/will benefit from it?  Yes/No (no 3rd 
>choice in this). One wonders why so much noise is made on this 
>issue. It is like one wanting to change the (+, -, / and x) in 
>Arithmetic/ Mathematics.

I am afraid this is exactly where reticular (networked) thinking 
leads to. When mankind changes its way of thinking one names this a 
paradigm change. This is what networking and resulting systemic helps 
understanding, something we first observed with Reletivity, Quantic 
theories, Big Bang, etc. you can also relate to the fact that there 
are five times more people on earth with more needs and longer life duration.

>There is a need to have a diplomatic way to approach this issue - 
>not purely technical approach.

Unfortunately, politics have learned to be suspicous about 
technicians from the early cybernetic experoence (mid 1900) and tend 
to consider the governance of the "Information Society" while 
forgeting the technical soil that virtuality implies.

This is why we have to be very carefull at not sawing the branch we 
are sitting on.
jfc