Re: Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance

Brian,

On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Brian E Carpenter 
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

> On 20/11/2013 06:13, SM wrote:
> ...
> >  As mentioned above, there has been many announcements,
> > meetings, etc. about Internet governance and most of them were motivated
> > by well-meaning people.  I am not aware of any positive outcome out of
> > any of the efforts.
> I'm not sure, given the origins and history of WSIS/WSIG (including the
> WSIS session in Tunisia supported by the previous Tunisian regime), about
> "most" being well-meaning. But never mind. I think there has actually been
> one positive outcome of all the IGF blah-blah: a continued absence of
> international treaties and regulations interfering with Internet technology
> and deployment. Interference has occurred only on a national basis. What
> we need is for this international non-interference to continue, even
> post-Snowdenia.
>
> Multi-stakeholder meetings, if they serve to prolong the non-interference,
> may be a price we have to pay. It's particularly important to underline
> that the response to pervasive surveillance should be better security
> and privacy technology, not regulation or national solutions.
I agree.  It seems to me that since governments are the ones doing pervasive 
surveillance, it is unlikely that government based solutions are likely to fix 
the problem, more likely the opposite.

Bob

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