[WSIS CS-Plenary] IPR : Strategic priorities for WGIG

[Jonathan Cave]

At 14:41 28/01/2005, Federico Heinz wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 09:05 +0000, Jonathan Cave wrote:
> > In my view, an IG group that did not consider IP would be like a 
> traffic authority that ignored land ownership.
>
>Beyond the extreme oversimplification implied in the metaphor, I think it 
>kind of fails to make your point, precisely because a traffic authority 
>has no bussiness setting policy on land ownership or its enforcement.

I was not aware that WGIG was setting policy:-)

>All it cares about is keeping the cars flowing in an orderly fashion, it 
>is none of its bussiness whether a car's destination is the driver's 
>property or not.

See subsequent discussions relating to IP and spam - the metaphor sounds 
less throwaway than when I made it:-)

>Let's abandon the metaphor quickly, lest we end up discussing it instead 
>of the real issue at hand. Internet Governance is about keeping the 
>internet going smoothly, it's about the rules that are expected from a 
>good netizen, regardless of where she comes from. Unless we want software 
>to implement chinese-style censorship installed in all *our* routers, we 
>should try to keep this governance scope as narrow as possible, and avoid 
>setting policy on anything that is not strictly related to the internet as 
>such.

OK, fine - I'm not on the WGIG, didn't think they were setting policy, but 
do think these issues are worth discussing - somewhere...


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