[governance] Digital restrictions management in HTML standards

[Avri Doria]

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Oh my!

Please if Parminder finds the suggestion so unpleasant, consider it withdrawn.
I do no to wish to displease him any further.
Or deal with the consequences of displeasing him.

But if it possible for the rest of you to edit it to somethings that works you,
cheers and good on you.

avri

On 11 May 2013, at 09:06, Avri Doria wrote:

> 
> oh my!
> 
> 
> On 10 May 2013, at 23:36, parminder 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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