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Re: United Nations report on Internet standards

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Sat, 28 March 2020 10:13 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet=40consulintel.es@dmarc.ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: United Nations report on Internet standards
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:34:39PM +0100,
 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet=40consulintel.es@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote 
 a message of 99 lines which said:

> I think the problem is that many government employees are never
> authorized to speak at all, or to speak even if they state that's
> their personal view or only allowed to state the "official" position
> from their organization.

Indeed, that's one of the points where the report is so
unrealistic. Government representatives have a script, they cannot
deviate from it, they have to get permission from several managers
above them just to give an opinion about the weather. This is
difficult to deal with.

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