RE: The telephone network and the internet (RE: [ga] ALAC comments on proposed Bylaws modifications)

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, at 12:30 [=GMT-0000], Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> However, I fail to see the link between the recommendation dissemination
> policy and a possible role of ITU for the Internet:

You are right that the fact that we have to pay to read the ITU texts, is
not central in the discussion. It came up, because Richard stressed that
the ITU did some things for free...

Personally I think that all such texts, whether we call them
recommendations or standards, should be freely available on the internet.
If only because making them more accessible, makes them more effective.
If you take yourself serious, you don't hide what you have to offer.

As soon as there is participation of those governed into the governing
organization it becomes _imperative_ that all material is accessible.
Otherwise it would be most easy to disqualify would be participants for
lack of knowledge. That is precisely what we want to avoid, I would hope.

So after all it might be more of a principle than it looks at first sight.



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