Re: [ga] Karl's latest

[James Love <james.love@cptech.org>]

Andy Mueller-Maguhn wrote:
> Also, I do not think, that anybody can use "the government as a tool"
> because governments have their own interests next to the sometimes
> existing tiny little bit of reputation some of them might have, through 
> claiming to work on behalf of the citizens (which is of course different
> for the different governments of the different countries and their
> different understandings and procedures to do so). 
> 
> The meeting in Bucharest already took place under specific and more
> or less extreme statements as well from governmental representatives
> as from people involed with the ITU. If you look at the current international
> situation outside ICANN, it is hard to guess in what kind  of issues
> a strong governmental involvemend would bring us in what we can
> see now as the "ICANN policy area" and what might it might end up to be.
> 
> Exactly this is at least my reason for voting in favour of the 
> blueprint as at least a less-worse solution then strong governmental
> involvement would be.


     Andy, at what point does ICANN become a "government" for the Internet?


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