Sam/ Avri,
Is possible... but it will be as complicated (or more) as UN organization ?

UN is about the physical world (politic) governance ?

rudi rusdiah

On 03/16/2014 08:20 PM, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
>
> Avri,
>
> My hope is that the major civil society constituencies in this process 
> can unite around opposition to any governance model based on a single 
> global organization. After centuries of governance evolution this is 
> not how governance is structured in other areas. /Gravity is even more 
> pervasive than is the Internet and we have not argued that traction is 
> everywhere so we should have global governance of driving regulations 
> /:-)
>
> In my meetings with students and others who respond with little 
> knowledge and prior thought, they frequently innocently propose some 
> “UN body” to govern the Internet using the simple argument that 
> “somebody has to do something about this”, the “this” being everything 
> from exploitation of children to government spying and commercial data 
> mining.
>
> The challenge here is to shift the discussion to deeper issues of how 
> governance does and might work. Starting from the usual agreement that 
> any governance should be democratic, and not authoritarian, the 
> problem becomes immediately apparent. Should global votes be weighted 
> one country one vote, or weighted by population. With Tuvalu (pop 
> 10,000) and China (pop 1363 million), China and large population 
> countries would not agree to one country one vote. With China’s 1363 
> million and the U.S.’s 318 million, the U.S and small population 
> countries would not agree to one person one vote. There is no basis 
> here for agreement for a single multilateral global governance body.
>
> Governance of the Internet is likely to look more like the multi-polar 
> and multi-leveled governance models that have evolved everywhere over 
> time. That path to Internet governance structures is paved with more 
> knowledgeable and engaged stakeholder constituencies, organizing as 
> cohorts pursuing their respective objectives at several levels at the 
> same time. Such it has always been and such it will always be, even in 
> the virtual territories of the Internet, and such it will be in the 
> long run no matter how this DNS transition rolls out in the short run.
>
> Sam Lanfranco
>