Re: United Nations report on Internet standards

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Fri, 27 March 2020 22:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: United Nations report on Internet standards
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On 3/27/20 8:33 AM, Andrew Campling wrote:

> There does seem to be an issue of diversity within the IETF cohort, 
> specifically diversity of thought.  Some of the responses to 
> Vittorio’s original post betray an in tolerance of “government”, 
> ignoring the fact that governments in democracies do represent their 
> citizens,

Disagree.   The idea that "governments in democracies do represent their 
citizens" is unsupportable as a general statement.

Keith