RE: [Ltru] W3C tag policy disclaimers and IETF RFCs

[r&d afrac <rd at afrac.org>]

On 14:44 08/08/2005, L.Gillam said:
> Jefsey,
> On what official basis do you represent human and cultural interests and
> civil rights? And for which peoples and cultures?

I am not sure I should answer such details in here (scope of the mailing
list)?

However I am for transparency. I have also been opposed by Addison who
signs as "Chair, W3C Internationalisation ..." but says he does
not speak in that position, but privately, what confused me and my
partial support of his Draft. As far as I am concerned I always said I
speak privately _and_ as a trustee of several efforts. I am also a member
of various other organisations (see Google), I do not claim to speak here
on their behalf (hat off).

I am not sure of what you mean by "official", and you mix what
I wrote. So, I will respond from my point of view, rather than from the
point of view of others, documenting what I actually wrote. This is, I
suppose, the best and most comprehensive response I can offer.

I said "my 'hobby' is to protect the human and cultural interests of
as many people as possible against the annoyments artificially created by
others". I created Intlnet in 1978 to serve the development of the
public International Network, with an innovate user-centric architecture.
This organisation teamed with Tymnet until 1986. At this date
commercial/network-centric interests took over Tymnet annoying my effort,
which had lead to extended services analysis, models, first products
deployment and Department. There was a split from Tymnet, and various
projects using the OSI technology - where annoyment came from an
unnecessary rigidity in implementing the network architecture. For a few
years the Internet solutions permit in part to develop some R&D and
projects. Artificial annoyments come (as documented by RFC 3869) from
lack of non-commercial R&D, lack of experience and competence,
network basic understanding and vision. This WG is a good example of this
lack of understanding of the needs and of the vision to address them. It
considers typographer's tools to address networked relations. Out of
scope by lack of proper competent analysis of its Charter, and as such a
dramatic possible nuisance due to its intended positionning.

I talked of "a defense against a few people wanting to annoy our
work as much as they can.". Until recently I though that W3C had a
wrong evaluation of the market needs and due to that opposed the AFRAC
work. That it did not yet identified our concurrent priorities. I
respected the Draft propositions as possibly addressing some W3C members
priorities, but I objected that this respect would be ballanced by a
disrespect of the AFRAC needs. Now, Addison nearly simultaneously
expressed that he conceived an IETF WG as a competition (confirming the
reasons of my objections), that he is not here as a W3C Member (removing
the reasons of my partial support) and has probably the motivation to
annoy the thinking track we share with other W3C members (I am not
interested in W3C internal discussions). I therefore feel totally at ease
now to fully object the proposed Draft, as I see no technical interest in
pursuing in the RFC 3066 error, documented in its security section.

I also said it was "a response to a demand of people, civil rights,
industry and Govs, from developed and developing countries to help
protecting their culture". I am not bound to disclose my
political/cultural engagements nor to violate privacy rules, or
legal/contractual obligations. But some have been broadly disclosed on
Google and from them you can deduce the level of others. I am an elected
person in several organisations, an industry consultant, one of the
activists of the @large movement, a Member and a speaker of the ccTLD
Registry community, and the founder of the fast developing
http://nicso.org small
think-thank. It is part of the fall outs of the Intlnet dot-root
experiment, along the lines of ICANN. Other initiatives are under way in
other areas.

I eventually said, "an ethical duty". We all have a duty to the
people of the world, to the global internet community, to the IETF, to
the members of the WG one shares in, to avoid mistakes being made when
one identifies them. With 30 years of experience and ties in networking
and cultural internetworking and in some other human, technical, artistic
and political areas, I identify this Draft as the second and determining
phase of a major error. I cannot do anything but to provide the service
to the WG, the IETF, the GIC, etc. to help making sure it does not
proceed. I certainly feel sorry for Addison's and Mark's. But an error
can be sympathetic, it stays an error. And this one is not only big, but
proud of being one big error.

While it could be so easy to correct, as most of the biggest
mistakes.

You asked. I responded again. I hope you are satisfied. All this takes an
awful lot of time, to prevent a catastrophe. Building would be more
rewarding for all. 
jfc

-----Original Message-----

From: r&d afrac [mailto:rd at afrac.org ]

Sent: 07 August 2005 20:57

To: Gillam L Dr (Computing); ltru

Subject: RE: [Ltru] W3C tag policy disclaimers and IETF RFCs

 

[snips]

It is rather a hobby to protect the human and cultural interests of as many people as possible against the annoyments artificially created by  others. But first, it is a defense against a few people wanting to annoy our work as much as they can.

Oh! no.... unfortunately just a necessity they impose on us. Also a response to a demand of people, civil rights, industry and Govs, from developed and developing countries to help protecting their culture. An ethical duty.

jfc

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