Subject: @EXT: RE: United Nations report on Internet standards

From: "Marcolla, Sara Veronica" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 07:57:58 +0000

It is incredibly difficult, and in many cases government invest time and coordination to gather a common position on an issue. 

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From: ietf <[email-masked]> On Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer
Sent: 28 March 2020 11:11
To: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet=[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]' <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: United Nations report on Internet standards

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:34:39PM +0100,  JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet=[email-masked]> wrote  a message of 99 lines which said:

> I think the problem is that many government employees are never 
> authorized to speak at all, or to speak even if they state that's 
> their personal view or only allowed to state the "official" position 
> from their organization.

Indeed, that's one of the points where the report is so unrealistic. Government representatives have a script, they cannot deviate from it, they have to get permission from several managers above them just to give an opinion about the weather. This is difficult to deal with.

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