Re: Advancing the W3C's Overall Agenda

I also concur with David's comment.  I find the process to be honorable, with everyone trying to tackle many serious and sometimes thorny issues in a thoughtful and collegial manner.  I am impressed by how seriously everyone is participating, that also includes good humor.  Our two chairs are the model of thoughtful fairness.  This is an important effort, and I appreciate everyone working so hard.  




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On Feb 10, 2012, at 11:53 PM, John Simpson wrote:

> Yep. Says it better than I could...
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> John M. Simpson
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> On Feb 10, 2012, at 6:55 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
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>> I have to say that I do not feel we are deadlocked or at loggerheads, and that overall I am enormously impressed by the civility of the exchanges and the flexibility exhibited by all, and by the skills of the chairs.
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>> I welcome the input from legislative bodies, and I think we should be mutually informed by them and they by us;  we can learn about social issues, and points of principle (which are truly outside our purview) and they can learn, if they need, about what is possible, and implementable.
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>> I think we are all aware of the need to find the balance of a specification that consumers can respect as achieving something material to respect privacy, when requested, and that industry can respect as implementable, and can be offered to consumers.
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>> Overall, I am a long way from crying 'Uncle!', a long way from looking for an 'ombudsman'.  I hope we never need one, and on current form, I think my hope reasonable.
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>> This is not to say that I don't have major concerns in several areas, or that I think no-one else has them.  What I have is confidence in our ability to engage in productive, challenging, debate and resolution.
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>> David Singer
>> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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