At 11:06 11/10/2008, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:
This being said, the private sector has not yet demonstrated it does better than nation states in terms of regulation, or self regulation in that case. This is also the case of the Internet industry.
All is tied together. The economic crisis also results from the digital money fluidity. Wall Street suffered first at interoperator level. Its generalisation, e-commerce and financial e-crimes create a new environment and a new finacial culture which is not finalized yet.
After 10 years of ICANNing, we still have no global legal framework to deal with issues like privacy, harmonized consumer rights regarding domain names, etc. This is outside ICANN's mandate, mostly because ICANN and the USG have no standing on their own in generating international private law. The only ones who could would be nation states, working under a common umbrella.
This has been dealt with by the WSIS. The problem we face is that the resulting operational structures are to be multistakeholder enhanced cooperations, and the USG does not want to relinquish its grip on solutions which should be open or are outdated (like in the DNS case). jfc