[WSIS CS-Plenary] PCT and WGIG

[MJ Ray]

Can someone please explain to me how safeguards about new enclosures 
(DRRT, GURT and so on) and free software issues - which are vital to 
many civil society groups - will be ensured by WGIG? I wonder because 
of the claims that no sympathetic wsis-pct member is there. I'm 
alarmed that IETF is seen as one despite their copyright and patent 
licensing positions.

Are consensus/consent-based groups comfortable with majority-vote 
decisions, or are there no such groups in this plenary? I was 
surprised by the lack of knowledge about consensus decision making in 
the January 2005 archive, but maybe some have yet to speak out.


DRRT - Digital Rights Restriction Technologies
GURT - Genetic Use Restriction Technologies

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MJR/slef    My Opinion Only and not of any group I know