Re: [hrpc] I-D Action: draft-irtf-hrpc-political-03.txt

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 7/12/19 7:41 AM, Eliot Lear wrote:
> I think you need to support this statement based on my previous message.
>  That is- if one has an inability to *effectively *participate in the
> setting of defacto standards that impact one’s own society, isn’t one
> disenfranchised from protecting against whatever human rights impacts
> our work has?  Or is that in itself not a human right, and merely some
> form of privilege?

I think we need to be clear that people do not have to attend IETF
meetings to influence internet standards, at least in theory.  We
(alas) do tend to stray from the expectation that the IETF does its
work (including coming to consensus) on mailing lists, but that is,
in fact, how we are expected to work.

That said, I also question whether or not this discussion is in-scope
for HRPC.  The question you ask above might be, but the one specifically
about IETF meeting venue choice is not.

Melinda

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