[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: [governance] CNAS Commentary: "The Internet Yalta"

[Sivasubramanian M]

This is from the Governance list.

The cnas article cited here is interesting because rightly or wrongly it
finds the WCIT to be a conference of comparable significance to Yalta.

What is more interesting is the warning related to ambiguous definitions.

Comments?

Sivasubramanian M

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From: "Philipp Mirtl" <Philipp.Mirtl at oiip.ac.at>
Date: Feb 11, 2013 6:07 PM
Subject: [governance] CNAS Commentary: "The Internet Yalta"
To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>

Dear list members,



For those who are interested, I forward you the link to a recently
published commentary on WCIT-12: http://www.cnas.org/theinternetyalta.



The abstract reads as follows:



“The December 2012 meeting of the World Conference on International
Telecommunications (WCIT) may be the digital equivalent of the February
1945 meeting of the Allied powers in Yalta: the beginning of a long
Internet Cold War between authoritarian and liberal-democratic countries.
The battles over Internet governance that surfaced at WCIT are not just
about competing visions of the Internet, with one side favoring openness
and the other security. They are also about two different visions of
political power – one in which that power is increasingly distributed and
includes non-state actors, and one in which state power is dominant. At the
Yalta Conference, Western democracies made two fundamental mistakes: first,
they allowed naive statements of wishful thinking to supplant actual
realities on the ground. Second, they overlooked the risk inherent in
permitting ambiguous definitions. Both of these mistakes may have been
repeated at WCIT.”



Best regards,





Philipp Mirtl



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