[wbs] response to 'Second Call for Review: Technology and Policy IG Charter'

The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Second Call for
Review: Technology and Policy IG Charter' (Advisory Committee) for
Electronic Frontier Foundation by Cory Doctorow.


The reviewer's organization opposes this Charter and requests that this
group not be created [Formal Objection].

Additional comments about the proposal:
   EFF believes that there are serious structural defects in the proposed
charter.

The most obvious is that the work product of this group will be
member-confidential. There is no obvious reason why the W3C's technical
deliberations should default to public, while a non-binding discussion of
the policy questions raised by those public deliberations will be secret.

The bright line between "internal W3C policies" and "policies raised by
technical issues under consideration" is illusory and will be the source of
endless and fruitless debate. The W3C makes technology recommendations
based on its internal policies; those recs create policy questions in the
world. Considering the latter without recourse to the former is incoherent
and will hobble productive discussion.

Finally, the participation framework is likely to yield dead-on-arrival
policy recs that can be easily ignored or denied by members who simply
abstained from the IG's work. 

EFF reiterates that the W3C has an extant framework for an effective,
expert deliberative body: the TAB. A comparison between the two makes the
deficiencies in the IG's proposed charter very clear. 


Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed at
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/techpolig2/ until 2016-09-21.

 Regards,

 The Automatic WBS Mailer

Received on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:21:09 UTC