[governance] Revised version of statement on themes for Nairobi

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 05:48:58 EST 2011


On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
>> I'm not inclined to modify the statement on which the consensus call
>> has been made
>
> Hm... I think this means that as far as I'm concerned, we fail to have
> consensus.
>
> In my view, the need for open standards which must be adequate not
> only to prevent perpetuate of past monopolies but also prevent the
> formation of new monopolies is an absolutely essential aspect
> of what the term "open Internet" should be understood to mean.


Very true.

>
> I apologize, I mean I'm really sorry, that I did not participate
> as immediately actively in the drafting of this statement as I
> now wish I had. But please note that I first made the request
> for the inclusion of a mention of the aspect of open standards
> several days before the consensus call was issued, and that the
> whole point of a consensus call is to give everyone the opportunity
> to review a draft statement and speak out

true again.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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