[governance] Digital restrictions management in HTML standards

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 15/05/2013, at 2:52 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> I agree with your assessment of W3C; however I also see this as
> something that needs to be challenged. It is fundamentally
> anti-democratic when a key Internet governance institution is
> organized as a consortium so that a small number of industry members
> can --in total disregard of negative social consequences for
> the rest of the world-- essentially unilaterally decide that a web
> standard of a certain type will be created. 

This is the problem with the inviolability of the W3C as one of the supposedly multi-stakeholder Internet [technical] community organisations, which makes it immune from political criticism.  The W3C should stick to its knitting and raise policy questions in a different forum that is more accessible to non-technical stakeholders, such as the IGF.  I'm in a W3C community group that is supposedly an interface to the discussions on DNT, and it has been useless.

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