[At-Large] a take on the ITU-ITR controversy

[parminder]

Another, post WCIT, take  on the controversy

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a-false-consensus-is-broken/article4222688.ece

parminder

On Saturday 01 December 2012 11:17 PM, McTim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Carlton Samuels
> <carlton.samuels at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Parminder:
> <snip>
>> I am unanimous  that a balanced multistakeholder approach and process to
>> matters Internet is best positioned for successful stewardship.
>>
>> You mentioned two major actions - unbundling software from hardware and
>> common carriage concepts for telecommunications - as major actions that
>> inured to the global public interest. Further examination will show one was
>> initiated by a state actor in a metropolitan country, the other by
>> commercial actors. So on the balance of the facts, I am not yet persuaded
>> that state actors are the best if not the only guarantors of the global
>> public interest.
> +1
>
>> I have a difficulty with the supposition of the public interest as alien
>> and mutually exclusive turf to commercial and civil interests.
> Very well said Carlton!!
>