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W3C's openness hypocrisy: Public barred from "public" conference [fs]
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:46:36 -0700
So the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, had an event earlier today that included keynotes from folks like Tim Berners-Lee. The W3C claims to pride itself on providing an "open forum" and its conference Web site clearly says: "Conversations and results are public."
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/eGov-policy-cfpBut the W3C's Danny Weitzner (a former CDTer, as longtime Politech readers may remember), believes that "public" actually means "not public." An excerpt from my writeup at News.com is below.
-Declan --- http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9731230-7.htmlThe World Wide Web Consortium, which purports to be an "open forum" for standards discussion, doesn't exactly live up to its own claims.
Earlier on Monday, the W3C barred one of my colleagues, News.com reporter Anne Broache, from attending a "Toward More Transparent Government" conference held, ironically, in a government building in Washington, D.C.
The conference Web site clearly says: "Conversations and results are public."
But Danny Weitzner, one of the W3C's policy directors and event co-chair, repeatedly claimed in a followup telephone conversation that, by "public," the W3C actually means "closed to the public." Weitzner was the person who personally barred my colleague from entering the conference.
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