[governance] Re: [discuss] Comcast undertakes 9 year IETF cosponsorship!?

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 21:48:33 EDT 2014


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net> wrote:

>
> Coming back to the topic - But really, are there all that many civil society people who prefer only public funding and governmental oversight?

judging by the responses so far on the various lists this has
traversed (I note that we are only on governance list now) the answer
is "no"


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> --srs (iPad)
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>> On 23-Mar-2014, at 19:59, Daniel Pimienta <pimienta at funredes.org> wrote:
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>>> Which is why I am glad that  parminders views are still a tiny minority not shared by civil society in general.
>> There is absolutely no evidence which could sustain this statement; as a matter of fact I trust, at the countrary, it applies much better to your views.
>>
>> The only way to assess such statements is to conduce a survey among the membership about some basic
>> questions which represent the lines of fracture of the debate here.
>> I would strongly suggest the new co-co team to consider seriously this possibility in the medium term.
>>
>> However, even if such survey would be conducted (and if it is realized with the appropriate criterias) the results only will reflect
>> the position of the part of civil society which is member of this forum and in no way the "civil society in general" to quote your words.
>>
>> The issue of outreach of the IGF towards a larger civil society stakeholders is another serious matter to be considered.
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