In an email to the Community Informatics list, on July 30, 2014, Michael Gurstein pointed to an “interesting background paper” he felt provided “some very useful conceptual clarification/development” for the Community Informatics Declaration - Internet for the Common Good. That paper was: James B. Quilligan, Why Distinguish Common Goods from Public Goods? I too found it interesting, but for different reasons. I support the CI Declaration because it defines global as a federation of locals. My reason for that support is based on a specific understanding of how a shift in culture that resulted in creating technologies like the Internet has also created a very different meaning for the word governance. I've put the results of my thinking here: Garth Graham. Cooperating community connections: a changing political reality. October 7, 2014. https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/49357134/connect.pdf?versio... GG