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Re: Of governments and representation (was: Montevideo Statement)

2013-10-14 08:08:20

The problem is not what actually each person said but what "they" say it was 
said and gets recorded into a statement that has no weight and it is not 
representative of the entire community.


-Jorge

On Oct 12, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Stephen Farrell 
<stephen(_dot_)farrell(_at_)cs(_dot_)tcd(_dot_)ie> wrote:


Hiya,

On 10/12/2013 01:02 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:

The thing is that I (and I suspect much of the IETF) feel that such I*
leadership attendees need to make it _very_ clear at such events that they 
are
there to present (as best they can) the views of the IETF as a whole, but 
they
cannot _commit_ the IETF to anything: only the IETF acting as a whole can do
that.

So fwiw I was there as Jari's sidekick-de-jour and I can confirm
that both Jari and Russ repeatedly made it clear that anything
substantive needed IETF community consensus. I realise that's not
as good as a recording or set of minutes, but there ya go.

Cheers,
S.