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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Last week, during the CPWG meeting, the sharp discrimination between policy and mechanism was mooted again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; display: inline !important; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">To the best of my knowledge, the</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">separation
of policy and mechanism stems from </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">design principle in computer science. I subscribe to this principle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please consider these working definitions.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Policy: a set of ideas or a plan of what to do.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b>Mechanism: a process, technique, or system for achieving a result.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I agree that policy is being made by those who had a through grounding in the related mechanism and so it should work most of the times. However, getting to the policy from the mechanism (s) is becoming arbitrarily difficult.
The very nature of computation as an idea is the primary cause for this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; display: inline !important; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="ContentPasted2">Bringing policy and mechanism together has the following concerns: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; display: inline !important; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="ContentPasted2">#1. It makes policy rigid and harder to change in response to user requirements. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; display: inline !important; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="ContentPasted2">#2. Trying to change policy has a strong tendency to destabilize the mechanisms.</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none; display: inline !important; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="ContentPasted2">
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; display: inline !important; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="ContentPasted2">If we do not bring them together, the exercise will always be fragmented with the policy becoming
a veneer to indicate a sort of binding of several mechanism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; display: inline !important; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="ContentPasted2">For the internet governance, it is always a tussle between keeping Policy and Mechanism "together
and separate". The coming togeher can happen only if one includes the design. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; display: inline !important; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="ContentPasted2">Hence, I suggest that "Technology" and "Managerial" concenrs may be separated and we work on interoprable
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; display: inline !important; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="ContentPasted2">We may then have the "One World One Internet" with more tangible outcomes for all the stakeholders.</span></div>
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