Brian and all,
As a member of the W3C myself I can testify that the W3C is interested.
As has been Kent's habit dating back to the IAHC/gTLD-MoU, his ignoring
other stakeholders is legendary. Hence such comments from Kent
should be taken in that light... Unfortunate but true...
Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Kent,
>
> This debate is open to W3C, ITU-T and anyone else who joins
> the list. Actually we have good reason to believe the W3C wants
> in. Obviously, however, in the end it isn't an IETF WG
> that decides what goes into an MOU; it's the set of initial
> signatories. This debate is very informative for drafting the
> MOU, of course.
>
> Brian
>
> Kent Crispin wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:15:33AM +0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
> > > We need to be careful that we have rules that focus on the important issues
> > > and not ones that exclude one group or another for reasons that look
> > > arbitrarily close to bigotry. It's easy to cite dislike for the ITU or
> > > governments -- or any other group, for that matter -- but liking isn't
> > > important. Relevance is.
> >
> > Indeed. But isn't it just as bigoted for the IETF to be making the
> > determination of that relevance? Shouldn't we let those other SDOs
> > express their own *real* interest, instead of trying to imagine what
> > they might be interested in, if they were actually participating in
> > the discussion?
> >
> > If we are going to try to come up with a PSO that involves other
> > organizations, then we need to have real negotiations with those
> > other organizations. If there are no real negotiations, then, IMHO,
> > we should simply propose the IETF to start with.
> >
> > We could perhaps try to propose some mechanism by which other
> > organizations would be included at a later time, but I don't think it
> > is necessary to establish a fixed, detailed, mechanism. The only
> > thing I think we need to build in to our PSO proposal is that the PSO
> > be willing to entertain modifications proposed by external
> > organizations, and that ICANN will mediate any negotiations.
> >
> > --
> > Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
Regards,
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