Dear Norbert,<br><br>no worries: I was simply trying to gently make fun at a certain tendency, which is certainly not unique to the Internet Governance civil society community, to over-use acronyms. I try hard not to fall into the trap otherwise.<br>
<br>On the other hand, maybe if we found acronyms that can be expanded to different meaning depending on the recipient we could more easily find common ground among different stakeholders. One could argue that the first part is already done (seeing how "EC" or "Enhanced Cooperation" means very different things to different people) but for the second part there is still some work to be done.<br>
<br>Cheers :)<br><br>Andrea<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Norbert Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nhklein@gmx.net" target="_blank">nhklein@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Frankly, if you think that my comments on the IETF amounted to denigrating
the organisation (DTO), we have a serious communication problem (SCP). As a
matter of fact, I conceded for the sake of discussion (SOD) that the IETF is
free from capture by large industry players (LIP); and that the
decision-making model (DMM) used by the IETF is producing good results
within the specific remit of the organisation (GRWTSROTO).
I did, however, question in a very socratic sense (VSS), being myself at the
ignorant side of the relationship, whether and how the IETF model could be
applied to public policy making (PPM); as well as which kind of objective
metrics one could use to analyse all of the above (AOTA), rather than
relying on the say-so of anyone.
For the time being, I concluded there is hope, since some civil servants and
some IETF participants do seem to have something in common, namely the
(forced?) passion for acronyms - I am currently writing an NtF for a pre-JF
with the CAB in which the LTT for the SC of next week will be discussed. I
kid you not, these are all real acronyms in an eurocrat daily life and<big><b> I
welcome you to try and guess what they mean. :)</b></big>
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