Re: The role of Internet governance in sanctions

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

You’ve started implementation so a policy with virtually no public input on the day after making your proposal public.

I’m pretty sure that’s not how the Internet works.

 -mel

On Mar 10, 2022, at 11:38 AM, Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:



On Mar 10, 2022, at 5:42 PM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:
I don’t understand your comment. I don’t think our statements are the same at all.

Perhaps not.  My goal is to minimize Internet disconnection.  Maybe that’s not your goal.  I was trying to give what 
you wrote the most generous possible interpretation.

You, on the other hand, seem to be referring to — correct me if I’m wrong — sovereign countries pulling the plug on 
their Internet access.

Perhaps you’re misunderstanding, it’s difficult to tell.  The current problem is “sovereign countries” disconnecting 
(or attempting to disconnect) other countries.  That’s a lot of disconnection.  That’s bad for people, and bad for 
business.  I’m against that.  It’s relatively simple.

The proposal you signed doesn’t address that, that I can see.

Perhaps read it again, then, since that’s the only thing it talks about.  Reducing the amount of disconnection from 
whole countries to as near zero as can be achieved in the presence of “sovereign countries."

Slow your roll. This is nowhere near ready for “operationalization”, as the several comments here objecting to the 
thing testifies.

Putting aside matters of fact...

Because a couple of people objecting to a document they haven’t actually read means that the rest of the industry has 
to put up with national-level disconnection?

I’m pretty sure that’s not how the Internet works.  But, you seem pretty certain you understand how things work better 
than I do.  Perhaps you can explain it to us.

                               -Bill

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