March 03, 2005

Organic to Ordered: The Wrong Direction?

By Ian

If you haven't, yet, you really ought to read Prof. Kiesling's three posts on institutional change: one, two, three.

Done? Good. Now, take a read through this concise discussion of the loose organization of internet "governing bodies." Then (yes, there's more), take a quick gander at this short note about rising sentiment to have the control of the internet centered at something like the UN.

Yeah, I got shivers too.

No, it's not truly competing groups, but I do think the differentiation between controlled, centralized organization versus a more organic growth illuminates the potential hazards of something like the above occuring (over and above it actually being the UN that decides it should run the internet).

Posted at March 3, 2005 04:23 PM

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