Re: [wg-c] compromise proposal

[Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>]

Amen.

Kevin J. Connolly wrote:

> This is supposed to be a WG.  In every WG I've ever heard
> of before, the participants come together as individuals, and
> positions are weighed on their intrinsic merits.
>
> As for me, non dato anus rodentum bifurca mortuque* whether
> a speaker represents 95,000 stakeholders, a corporation with
> $2,000,000,000,000 in sales, or just the few cubic centimeters
> of jelly inside hir cranium.
>
> Only the last of these criteria makes any difference.
>
> Unless, of course, we no longer pretend to be weighing positions
> based on merit, but on the clout of the economic interest asserting
> the same.
>