I never hidden I am involved in cultural policy.
Actually, I represent a group of specialised colleagues.
>From EU Governments, EU Parliament, and International Organisations.
We came here after reading a suggestion of Mr. Morfin.
We wanted to know about this IETF he talked about.
On the spot.
Dr. Lessig says the Internet Constitution is in the code.
Mr. Morfin says it means it is in the Internet standards.
He asked us to read RFC 3935, 3869, 3774.
(We known the US positions and Communications code).
We wanted to know how the IETF "influences" us.
How it writes and decides our constitution.
What is its real ethic, its real values, its real allegiances.
How it works. If it can be used. And if so, by who? How?
We wanted to evaluate the IETF lingual proposition.
Its capacity to address the needs of our cultures.
Its impact on our industries. Its interest in our laws.
Its capacity to evolve and innovate.
Also, its possible bias.
We verified Linguasphere was blocked.
We verified that "en-EU" was denied.
We verified the importance of the Unicode consortium.
We understand what is "internationalization".
We understand the IDNA and the Langtags issues.
For that we are called "Mr. Morfin".
Still minutes ago in a Mr. Alvestrand's ad hominem.
He should be "banned" for, would he not be the Chair.
Now, we take it as an honour.
We can now leave the IETF.
We learned why technical intelligence is useful.
I will ask someone to "lurk" for me.
IETF is important to the users and to those who defend them.
And I loved the cat and mice game.
Mr. Halvestrand is correct.
My name is not "Eduardo Mendez".
When the IANA list is activated I may join it openly.
As long as it uses an alias, I think I can do the same.
Actually, I think I had to.
We could not come in official capacity.
We have not to take position.
But we were on the verge to, before we came.
By ignorance.
We thank all of you for what we learned.
I think Mr. Morfin is right: the IETF must be defended.
Against some of its Members (plural) too.
He thinks you can do it. I hope he is right.
"Eduardo Mendez"
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