[governance] stakeholder categories (was Re: NSA sabotage of Internet security standards...)

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 18.09.13 18:04, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Peter H. Hellmonds <peter.hellmonds at hellmonds.eu> wrote:
>
>> Norbert,
>>
>> How would you determine who has "a high degree of independence from
>> government and from commercial interests related to the topics on
>> which they engage"?
> I would propose that people and organizations who purport to participate
> as civil society should be asked to publish some statement about what
> they do to ensure a high degree of independence.
>
> If such a statement turns out to be significantly deceptive, that should
> be punishable as fraud. For example astroturf should be persecuted as a
> kind of such fraud.
>
>


As you can imagine, those who will intentionally lie, will make sure 
they are not caught. At the same time a lot of innocent, but not extra 
careful people will be burned.
It should be obvious that any intention to punish people who voluntarily 
participate somewhere does always result in less people participating.

Daniel

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