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 >