[governance] Digital restrictions management in HTML standards

[parminder]

On Saturday 11 May 2013 09:32 AM, Adam Peake wrote:
> 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".

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...

I do support IGC endorsing the statement against the proposed W3C move 
to install DRM hooks in the basic web architecture..

parminder


>
> 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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