<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 11/05/2013, at 3:26 PM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Saturday 11 May 2013 09:32 AM, Adam Peake wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">First, use some boiler plate text to describe what the ICG is. (And do<br>we have such text?) So readers know who the statement is coming from.<br><br>Second, a simple statement "The participants in the IGC support this<br>petition".<br></blockquote><br>Dont think Avri means IGC to support the statement..... she seems to say trying that kind of thing will get us into substantive discussion... I am happy to be told that I am wrong...<br><br>I do support IGC endorsing the statement against the proposed W3C move to install DRM hooks in the basic web architecture..<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I also like to think that we should at least try to get an IGC rough-consensus on this. Let's not give up on that without trying. I also support the use of polls to get a broader segment of IGC members to give their feedback, rather than just the usual suspects chiming in on the mailing list. In my experience an individually-addressed email invitation to a straw poll gets a much higher response rate and can be useful to the coordinators in assessing how widely-held are the dissenting views.</div><br><div>
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