>
> Throughout this debate over Internet Governance,
> there has consistently been two very different and
> distinct perspectives.
>
> One looked at the transition of authority from IANA
> to ICANN as a purely technical matter, one that should
> remain under the control of a technocracy.
...
> The other side looked at this transition as the establishment
> of world-wide self governance, one that should be firmly based
> on representative and democratic structures. Here, process was
> more important than decisions, representative structures were
> more important than political appointments.
Have you tried to run the parallel construction on another axis: that
there are 'network' issues, and 'network of network' issues which
are,as you say, distinctly different, *but have had to use the same
terminology*?
kerry