- From: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.org>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:18:05 -0500
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
The W3C is perceived as the guardian of a public trust. The RAND proposal and the attempt to sneak it past public scrutiny are a massive violation of that trust. That a proposal with consequences as sweeping and far-reaching as RAND could have been kept secret for so long is ample evidence that something is very wrong at the W3C. If the W3C is to continue as a viable entity in maintaining the standards of the WWW it must not only strongly reject the RAND proposal, it must also change the way it operates and implement structural changes to ensure that the concerns of web users are taken into consideration along with those of private interests. -- ===================================================================== Greg Smith * * * gsmith@gregsmith.org * * * http://www.gregsmith.org/
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