[ga] Back to Bagdad

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jun. 03, 2004 
Introduction to the WTO TRIPS Agreement in Iraq put on by the USPTO.

Location: Baghdad, Iraq, Training Recipient: Trade officials
The day-long seminar for 30 Ministry of Industry and Minerals and
Ministry of Interior officials which was hosted by coalition reconstructionists, and basically paid for by my (U.S.) tax dollars.
Understanding of major trade issues and compliance with international customs and practice is the quickest way for Iraq to engage others and prosper.
Isolationism sucks at best and cripples the rights of the individual.
 
Think of what the isolation did to old Iraq, USSR, Libya, Vietnam.  What is still doing in North Korea, Iran.  Someone wrote that the delegation of a ccTLD is solely a matter of internal struggle and a right of self determination.  How wrong they were. It is a grave matter of global tolerance and integration and the right that the community be connected.
National - International recognition - has proven to be a great keeper of the culture as long as communities interact and learn from the mistakes and histories of others. It is not only the right of outsiders to influence such matters it is their obligation as fellow humans.
 
Look at ICANN they have isolated themselves and have become innefective and nothing in the workings of the Internet, they gave up their rights when they refused to listen to those they considered outsiders and denied stakeholders a voice.
Eric 


		
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