[governance] The greatest threat in the world today to peace....

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

That is rule lawyering i am afraid.

The xonnection is tangential at best as others havr pointed out here,and by
the time such posts become nearly the majority of one's 'contributions' to
the list,with little or no additional commentary on where or why igov is
affected, then you tend to figure out the on or off topicness, or more
importantly, the produxtivity of continuing to allow the list to degenerate
into a single point agenda of US bashing.

Norbert Bollow [09/02/14 21:39 +0100]:
>Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>
>> I don't think IGC has a definition of off-topic.
>
>The IGC Charter states:
>
>"""
>Appropriate messages to an IGC list contribute to the objectives and
>tasks of the IGC, particularly:
>
>* To inform civil society and other progressive groups or actors on
>  significant developments impacting on Internet governance policies.
>* To anticipate, identify and address emerging issues in the areas of
>  Internet governance and help shape issues and perspectives in a
>  manner that is informed by the stated vision of the IGC
>* To develop common positions on issues relating to Internet governance
>  policies, and make outreach efforts both for informing and for
>  creating broad-based support among other CS groups and individuals
>  for such positions.
>"""
>
>In my view, a report about the US being significantly *perceived* as a
>great “threat to peace” informs on “significant developments impacting
>on Internet governance policies”. Perceptions drive policies.
>
>By the way, postings which criticize a specific previous posting for
>allegedly having been off-topic will usually not “contribute to the
>objectives and tasks of the IGC”. This tends to render the criticism
>off-topic regardless of how one sees the original posting that is being
>criticized.
>
>Greetings,
>Norbert
>

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