On Aug 14, 2016, at 12:30 PM, parminder <parminder@itforchange.net> wrote:
On Friday 12 August 2016 12:11 AM, John Curran wrote:
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ICANN and its community undertake decisions that affect those who make use of the Internet identifiers in question. There are still a billion plus people on the planet who do not do so, and ICANN has no ‘governance’ function with respect to them, yet your use of the “public governance body” would lead many to assume otherwise (due to the traditional role of public authorities in public governance)
More people do not use cars, or guns, or ...... the list is endless. Does not mean that rules around them are not to be considered issues of 'public governance' just for that reason. The Internet today impacts practically everyone, whether one uses it or not. Just as laws of international trade effects everyone, whether one is directly carrying out trade or not.. Excuse me to say it, but this is a very weak argument.
Ah, you’ve transition now into actual laws, and I do agree that such is the realm of public governance. Note that it is also the case that laws are made by governments – something that ICANN is not. Thanks, /John disclaimer: my views alone.