[governance] Digital restrictions management in HTML standards

[Adam Peake]

First, use some boiler plate text to describe what the ICG is. (And do
we have such text?) So readers know who the statement is coming from.

Second, a simple statement "The participants in the IGC support this
petition".

Seems the idea is to keep it as simple as possible.

Adam


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:36 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 10 May 2013 02:16 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>>
>> [with IGC coordinator hat on]
>>
>> Are there any objections to Avri's proposal below?
>
>
> From Avri's proposes template " The IGC is ...*. The participants in the IGC
> support this petition. "
>
> Dont understand what it means.... to me it means all participants in IGC
> support, which means IGC supports......
>
> And if there is a typo and it is meant to say "the following or undersigned
> participants in the IGC support the petition"
>
> I am not sure how this in between category works, to me either (1) IGC is
> supporting something or (2) a set of individuals/ orgs are supporting
> something with no reference to IGC
>
> What is bar to qualify for this new in-between category, indicated b Avri's
> framing...... Can, for instance,  I and a friend, also on the IGC list,
> build up a statement and say,
>
> "The IGC is ....... . The following  participants in the IGC support this
> petition".
>
> My view: either IGC supports something and otherwise there is no mention of
> IGC...
>
> parminder
>
>
>
>>
>> (If we have consensus on this general course of action, I think that
>> the next steps on this would be informal editing and then a consensus
>> process to create a bit of fluff text on what is the IGC etc., to go
>> along with with the sentence that expresses support for the petition.)
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>>
>> Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote on 28 Apr 2013:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have personally signed and would support a statement if we could
>>> say something that like:
>>>
>>> "
>>> The IGC is ...*.
>>> The participants in the IGC support this petition.
>>>
>>> signed
>>> {set of those who endorse - individuals and organizational
>>> participants} "
>>>
>>> Any more and we would probably be involved in substantive issues.
>>>
>>> avri
>>>
>>> * do we have a canned "who the IGC is" stmt - or is that a
>>> substantive issue?
>>>
>>> On 28 Apr 2013, at 18:00, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>>>
>>>> What are the views about the idea of in addition issuing a brief
>>>> IGC statement in support of this petition or with a message similar
>>>> to it?
>>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>> Norbert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Many people here may wish to sign this petition.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
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