[governance] Letter to the MAG on visibility of 'rights

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Roland and all,

  My response interspersed below...

Roland Perry wrote:

> In message <48A25A0B.79ABAB0B at ix.netcom.com>, at 20:50:36 on Tue, 12 Aug
> 2008, Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com> writes
> >If indeed that there is not going to be a unified agreed upon
> >text/draft for a Internet "Bill of Rights", than how does the IGF
> >expect to be taken seriously on such a notion?
>
> You seem to think "the IGF" is some sort of corporate entity capable of
> assuming an identity (which can then be taken seriously or not depending
> on people's perceptions of its actions).

  Any entity corporate or not, can do so, and many have.  But no,
I do not make such an assumption in respect to the IGF.

>
>
> That's not the case - the Chair has said on many occasions that one of
> the main reasons the IGF can't "negotiate a text" or "vote" on anything
> is because it has no such identity or even a formal membership - being
> merely a group of people whoever happen to turn up for a meeting once a
> year.

  Yes, I understand that.

>
>
> Yes, there's a chair (and perhaps a co-chair, although not this year so
> far), and a secretariat, and a MAG, and meetings every three months in
> Geneva, but they are simply setting the scene for the main meeting.

Also already understood.

>
> --
> Roland Perry
> ____________________________________________________________
> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>      governance at lists.cpsr.org
> To be removed from the list, send any message to:
>      governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org
>
> For all list information and functions, see:
>      http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance

Regards,

Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS.
div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail
jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com
My Phone: 214-244-4827

____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, send any message to:
     governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org

For all list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance