Re: New Scientist - We want our internet back

On 2016-08-03 14:46, Sandro Hawke wrote:
> But I can clarify one thing: some MIT Crosscloud-funded personnel are in
> the Working Group representing Solid.   At different points in time,
> this has been Andrei, Sarven, and Dmitri.
>
> Other MIT Crosscloud-funded personnel in the Working Group are not there
> on behalf of solid.   That's me and Amy.    It's hard to dictate
> someone's technical judgments, and since neither of us happened to be
> deep believers in the solid approach, it's been reasonable for us to
> take on the role of staff contact, a role which requires a degree of
> neutrality.   (W3C doesn't ask staff contacts to give up all opinions,
> because that's often at odds with having technical expertise.  But we
> have to balance the bigger picture.)

I think the implication that the Solid representatives are not critical 
about the technologies that we are working with, don't have more complex 
viewpoints, or don't have the quality to have a degree of neutrality 
about technologies is unfair. I'd like to be able to characterise my 
'deep beliefs' myself in future.

-Sarven
http://csarven.ca/#i

Received on Thursday, 4 August 2016 14:51:37 UTC