another brilliant proposal by Indian govt to somehow govern the net, as they have now realized that companies, ppl not inside Indian borders our not covered by Indian law so involve UN , a failed body on it's own just controlled by some countries.
India formally proposes government takeover of Internet | News and analysis from .nxt
will just quote a para from the above link which shows epically bad this idea is.
Cultural clash aside, there are also strong pragmatic reasons for why the multi-stakeholder model of decision-making is a better one for the Internet.
Having been designed and developed by the technical community and private sector, the Internet possesses within it countless provisions and protocols that work through reciprocation. No node on the Internet is any more important than another. And those nodes can appear and disappear without impacting the network itself.
"The only effective solution is to develop policies and protocols that are embraced by the majority, and to allow those changes to propagate across the network"
It is this nature, specifically designed for its resiliency, that makes the Internet as an entity almost impossible to control. The only effective solution is to develop policies and protocols that are embraced by the majority, and to allow those changes to propagate across the network.
India formally proposes government takeover of Internet | News and analysis from .nxt
will just quote a para from the above link which shows epically bad this idea is.
Cultural clash aside, there are also strong pragmatic reasons for why the multi-stakeholder model of decision-making is a better one for the Internet.
Having been designed and developed by the technical community and private sector, the Internet possesses within it countless provisions and protocols that work through reciprocation. No node on the Internet is any more important than another. And those nodes can appear and disappear without impacting the network itself.
"The only effective solution is to develop policies and protocols that are embraced by the majority, and to allow those changes to propagate across the network"
It is this nature, specifically designed for its resiliency, that makes the Internet as an entity almost impossible to control. The only effective solution is to develop policies and protocols that are embraced by the majority, and to allow those changes to propagate across the network.
