> I have a number of deep reservations about that report and indeed the > problem description it started with. But one of my concerns is what I > think of as a mistaken view it has of "stakeholders" on the Internet. > It basically has a demarcated-stakeholder model of how one > participates in standards-making. This approach is not too dissimilar > to the mechanisms ICANN uses for its participation and this is the poison at the root of the icann tree, competitive constituencies as opposed to cooperative stewardship. randy
