On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Kent Crispin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 12:34:12PM -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> >
> > > On the other hand, the Jan 21 meeting is a prepratory meeting for an
> > > immediately following PUBLIC meeting, and includes a *great many*
> > > stakeholders from many really different constituencies.
> >
> > Sounds like a re-incarnation of the IFWP so-called "steering-committee".
> > (In fact, it looks like many of the participants are the same.)
> >
> > It sounds however, that this time there is no pretense of it being merely
> > a meeting to deal with administrative issues but, rather, is to create an
> > interest block with pre-arranged and secret quid-pro-quos.
>
> Perhaps Jay, Jim Dixon, and some of the other people on the IFWP
> steering committee would care to comment on the secret quid-pro-quos
> that they participated in during the steering committee meetings.
Oh yes it was nothing but one quid-pro-quo after another.
It may be relevant to talk about the bwg-n-friends list. This
evolved out of private correspondence that started before the IFWP
steering committee collapsed. Some time after the Boston meeting
there were enough people involved that the CC list became unwieldy,
so someone proposed setting up bwg-n-friends.
What no one mentioned was the setting up of a second, secret list,
bwg-core. After a while it became apparent that all of the real
decisions were being made on the secret list; the rest of us were
just there to make proposals. That is, we were back in the old
familiar "request for public comments / decisions behind closed doors
by the inner circle" loop.
So when Karl talks about secrecy and pretence you can be sure that
he knows whereof he speaks.
This whole process, on all sides, needs the light of day.
--
Jim Dixon Managing Director
VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316
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