Another, post WCIT, take on the controversy http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a-false-consensus-is-broken/article4222... parminder On Saturday 01 December 2012 11:17 PM, McTim wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@gmail.com> wrote:
Parminder: <snip> I am unanimous that a balanced multistakeholder approach and process to matters Internet is best positioned for successful stewardship.
You mentioned two major actions - unbundling software from hardware and common carriage concepts for telecommunications - as major actions that inured to the global public interest. Further examination will show one was initiated by a state actor in a metropolitan country, the other by commercial actors. So on the balance of the facts, I am not yet persuaded that state actors are the best if not the only guarantors of the global public interest. +1
I have a difficulty with the supposition of the public interest as alien and mutually exclusive turf to commercial and civil interests. Very well said Carlton!!