Re: walling of the web

> I draw your attention in particular to the sentence that starts "Dissenters
> cannot..."
>
>         "In some cases, even after careful consideration of all points of
> view, a group might find itself unable to reach consensus. The Chair MAY
> record a decision where there is dissent (i.e., there is at least one Formal
> Objection) so that the group may make progress (for example, to produce a
> deliverable in a timely manner). Dissenters cannot stop a group's work
> simply by saying that they cannot live with a decision. When the Chair
> believes that the Group has duly considered the legitimate concerns of
> dissenters as far as is possible and reasonable, the group SHOULD move on.
>
>         Groups SHOULD favor proposals that create the weakest objections.
> This is preferred over proposals that are supported by a large majority but
> that cause strong objections from a few people. As part of making a decision
> where there is dissent, the Chair is expected to be aware of which
> participants work for the same (or related) Member organizations and weigh
> their input accordingly."
> http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies#managing-dissent
>
So, according to this text (and in particular the text where you have
draw my attention):

1º all dissenters on this list and outside it we have show solid
arguments why we dissent about development of EME and CDM as W3C
recomendations, both technical, philosofical, ethical, sociological
and economical. The only ones that have say that "they cannot live
with a decision" (in this case, W3C not supporting EME and CDM) have
been the promotors of EME and CDM, arguing that without it they
couldn't make bussiness on the "open web", and without giving almost
any other argument about why this specification should keep going on.

2º the objections showed against EME and CDM have been really strong,
highly argumented both from experts and general public, and by a big
group of people, several times bigger than the group of promotors. Or,
from another point of view, the "supported by a large majority" are
the ones that are against EME and CDMs and the ones "that cause strong
objections from a few people" are just the ones that are promoting it.
Really something to think about...

3º taking in account only the weight of the Member organizations, it
could be interpreted as that individual users and developers are not
represented by anybody on the W3C and their opinion is not considered,
taking in account only the opinion of the big corporations as Apple,
Google, Microsoft, Netflix... A dangerous, bad written policy that
could lead to dangerous interpretation...


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