[Mmwg] Suggestion for consultation

[William Drake]

Hi,

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> From: mmwg-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:mmwg-bounces at wsis-cs.org]On
> Behalf Of Avri Doria

> but in the WGIG we participated as individuals.  so what model are we
> looking for and individual participant model or the model of CS as
> junior partner?

Since you know the answer, I suppose this is intended as a rhetorical question. 
WGIG was a group of 39 writing a report.  This is a consultation of hundreds
preparing for a meeting of potentially more than a thousand.  For the WGIG
model to scale may require in part that CS organizes itself in a manner that
they know how to deal with so as to get the same respect that we did in WGIG. 
If we're just going to say, well, this is how we do it, deal with it, and the
result is perceived a free range tower of Babel, I don't think that advances
our interests.  The exercise is supposed to promote inter-species dialogue, and
I think that means taking into account how the other side thinks.  It's also
not entirely clear to me what modalities we would be developing here if we
simply mean to say to governments and business, as many of us will talk as long
as we want about whatever we want, even if there's no clear point, like it or
lump it.  So of course, I'm not saying we should be junior partners, nor that
we should presume to impose restrictions on CS people not involved with us, but
I do think it would help to think through an interface that doesn't leave the
government folks feeling like their time's not being well spent.

BD