Fair enough! Cheers, Emma On 21 Aug 2013 14:09, "Keith Mitchell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Emma, > > On 08/21/2013 05:32 AM, Emma Frost wrote: > > > So this is a site where several organisations have signed up to some > > principles relating to surveillance (the ISOC Board have signed) > > and I wondered if this was something that UKNOF would want to sign up > > to? > > > https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/text > > > > I think it would be good to have UKNOF sign, but maybe some feel that > > would make the group too 'political'? > > I'm going to refer you to UKNOF's charter > (http://www.uknof.org.uk/charter.html): > > "UKNOF's remit is technical, and any discussion or activities > involving commercial, legal or political issues should be limited to > where they have a direct impact on technical aspects of network > operations." > > We don't as an organisation take public policy positions, so signing > position statements is just not something UKNOF does. That doesn't mean > we can't discuss and share information about public policy proposals, > legislation and regulations where they are going to have a direct impact > on running the UK's network infrastructure. > > > Or maybe some of you would like to recommend it to your own > > organisations: > > There's plenty of other organisations around that exist primarily to > engage in forming public policy, UKNOF participants are of course free > to support these, and lobby them to adopt positions, in their own right > as they see fit. > > And UKNOF is of course about open sharing of information, so thank you > for giving everyone a heads-up on the above. > > Hope that clarifies. > > Keith > > >
