Dear Milton,

My personal understanding is that the demand for equal roles for all
stakeholders in Internet Governance is usually presented vis-a-vis one
specific actor: the States. The aim usually is to criticize the lack of
equal footing in spaces like ITU or to argue that new issues should not be
taken to these intergovernmental spaces.

A more isonomic and fair approach would be to demand equal roles in all
internet governance layers and arrangements, considering that most of the
areas of Internet governance are private-led and not government led: from
the infrastructure layer and interconnection arrangements to the
development of standards and to the terms of use of platforms in the
applications layer. To be coherent the statement should argue that all
stakeholders should participate in all layers and arrangements on equal
footing.

But would that be of interest to the development of the Internet? I have
doubts. My current understanding is that some areas of governance should be
private-led, just like some other areas should be state-led. For example, it
makes sense that the development of standards is primarily led by the
technical community, although there should be transparency, openness,
accountability and also real responsiveness to inputs of other actors (and
ways to guarantee responsiveness).  That is what I understand by different
roles of different actors. Therefore, I do not think the expression should
be abolished, but reinterpreted.

Of course, I understand your point of view (we exchanged many e-mails about
similar points over the years :) and it is certainly a valid way of looking
at things. I would support that such a document is put forward as a
contribution on behalf of those who share this understanding.



Best wishes,

Marilia


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It looks quite sound to me, MM. Good contribution!
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> sent from a dumbphone
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> On 28/02/2014, at 17:45, Milton L Mueller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>  OK, I submitted the document to Netmundial and listed NCSG as my
> "organization"
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> *From:* NCSG-Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]>]
> *On Behalf Of *Olivier Kouami
> *Sent:* Friday, February 28, 2014 2:10 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [NCSG-Discuss] Submission to the Brazil meeting
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> +1
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> -Olevie-
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> 2014-02-28 4:26 GMT+00:00 Nicolas Adam <[log in to unmask]>:
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> I support the statement.
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> Nicolas
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> On 2014-02-27 3:00 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
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>  It seems that there were several expressions of support for this
> statement. I have made a few minor modifications based on suggestions from
> comments. Should I submit this statement on my own behalf only? Can I claim
> that it has support from the NCSG? Or can NCSG move forward with it on its
> own, and submit its own version separately?
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> *From:* NCSG-Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]>]
> *On Behalf Of *Milton L Mueller
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 26, 2014 5:18 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* [NCSG-Discuss] Submission to the Brazil meeting
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> Dear fellow NCSG members:
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> I am involved in preparing two submissions to the Brazil meeting. One,
> with Brenden Kuerbis, is a detailed proposal for globalization of IANA. It
> is not ready yet, but watch for it.
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> The other is a proposed principle about stakeholder equality. That
> statement is ready for your viewing and comment here:
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tuWn6tnQBFhXKz6FumabAHpG3zfCNx2ZBPzWNw3Ifo4/edit?usp=sharing
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> It's a short 2-pager, 600 words. I just want to test the waters and see
> how much support there is for this or whether it needs major revisions.
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> Milton Mueller
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> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
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> http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/
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