<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Mar 23, 2014, at 2:59 PM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;">(standards making for something as socially important today as the Internet, in absence of any further neutral public oversight constitutes a governance function).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Really? There are hundreds of IETF protocols (and there can be hundreds of</div><div>Internet Drafts proposing changes or enhancements coming up for consideration</div><div>to become an RFC at any given IETF meeting...)</div><div><br></div><div>Decisions on all of those documents are "governance functions"? That is </div><div>beyond believability, and hence I ask what criteria or circumstances that</div><div>you believe would make a decision on a document an act of "governance"...</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimers: My views alone.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>