[133884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UN mulls internet regulation options
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Sun Dec 19 20:12:52 2010
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <m27hf59uev.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:12:33 -0800
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 19, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Well, if you have followed the news, it comes down to the fact that
>> some of our old friends from WSIS/WGIG/IGF+ICANN/GAC "we're the
>> government and we like the idea of being in charge" friends are at it
>> again. In one corner, Brazil, China, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia;
>> in the other, US, Austria, and so on. The current state of play is
>> that the folk in the first corner would like an exclusive club, and a
>> combination of parties including the folks in the second corner and a
>> variety of civil society, industry, and etc parties and rocked the boat
>> back in the direction of multi-stakeholder discussions.
>>
>> My prediction: the boat will keep rocking, and the "givmint" folks
>> will try again. And again.
>
> s/again/still/
That too...
> randy
