It would be a good thing for I* bodies to reflect on these points that
John and Roger are making and provide meaningful support for individual
actors to engage effectively and in a balanced way or admit that they
are not multi stakeholder.
Christian
Roger Jørgensen wrote:
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:49 PM, John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com>
wrote:
<snip>
Coordinating Committee have become open-ended. Unlike many of
the appointing groups, the IETF is not in a position to
underwrite those costs, i.e., to cover costs of time-salary
and/or travel to the various meetings so as to spread those
costs across the relevant community. The net effect is that
the only people who can plausibly represent the IETF are those
who:
This part here made me think, can this issue about cost be the first
step on the way to a multi-stakeholder for Internet where only
the rich can participate? Rich as in having money AND time to travel
to endless meetings around the world? ... I hope not.
Personally I would like to get more involved but I can not see a way
to get more involved, have no way to fund it, or see how I can get
time to do more.
Except that, it's great work and good to see discussion on the
subject (IANA transition) and future for the Internet.
<snip>
p.s. Personal note: despite personal interest in this,
involvement as an advisor to IANA since the late 1970s and early
1980s, key roles in ICANN's creation and intermittent
involvement since (as liaison to the Board, advisor on multiple
issues (especially IDNs and i18n), and occasional consultant,
I'd not putting my name forward for this role. The reasons are
ultimately connected to the remarks above: I have no funding for
an open-ended commitment that could involve significant time and
travel and I'm already overextended on work I feel I need to do
for the IETF.
Especially with the added requirement for "diversity"
Any discussion without historic view have a possibility to repeat old
mistakes...
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Christian de Larrinaga
FBCS, CITP, MCMA
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