On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Måns Nilsson <mansaxel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Subject: Re: Internet standardisation remains unilateral Date: Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:53:19PM +0200 Quoting Hannes Tschofenig (hannes.tschofenig@xxxxxxx):
> On 10/21/2013 04:34 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:I know Harald. He is from Norway. There is nothing more to say than that.
> >Halald Alvestrand (which btw is from Norway not the USA)
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> This illustrates part of the problem.
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> It depends on the type of argument you want to make and then you
> count people different. You count Harald as someone who comes from
> Norway. The author of the slide deck wanted to make a different
> argument and so he sees Harald as a person working for Google, as
> US-based company.
And I am a UK citizen and I work for a company where most of the senior management are British. But from the point of view of most governments concerned about 'Diversity' we count as US.
One of the reasons that the Web is so heavily US based is that it was the only country with suitable existing infrastructure where most of the pioneers could get visas to work.
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