[bestbits] Important new joint submission to CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 25/08/2013, at 11:44 PM, matthew shears <mshears at cdt.org> wrote:

> Hi Jeremy, all
> 
> Great job of combining diverse perspectives.  A couple of thoughts for your consideration.  I like the overall submission but believe that for the BestBits response to be as effective as possible it needs to be concise as possible.  I am concerned that it is overly long in parts.

Thanks for the feedback.  It puts me in a tough position since the text was meant to be closed off minutes after you sent your email, and I'm currently travelling with limited Internet access (I only just read this email, and am replying from an airport), so I'm not going to be able to engage in another round of amendments.

Since question 8 was the most contentious, I am really loathe to open it up again.  For question 11, I see your point and will ask the person who drafted that part if he's willing to omit any of it (rather than redrafting it, which at this late stage, is not too feasible).

If he won't take out any of question 11, then we're going to have to take a hard decision and my suggestion will be that we close the submission as-is, and people who can't agree to it in its present form can fork it.  But we need to make that decision within about the next 12 hours.  It's already close of business Monday where I am.

Let's take this off list and see if we can resolve it by removing any text.  If not, we'll close about twelve hours from now.

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