[smc-discuss] Re: Fwd: Defending the threat to the public-ness and the egalitarian nature of the Internet

[Anivar Aravind]

2008/11/27 ashik salahudeen <aashiks at gmail.com>
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> +1

done. sent our confirmation. But I still feel the 2nd point may need
needs some more clarity  And the way it presented may invite unwanted
criticism.  I sent out a mail offering our support and raising these
points

All the  four points highlighted actually are managed mostly by means
of 1.  If there is clear policy on 1 we can achieve quite a lot of
Public control  over internet  media.  The most popular embedding of
control points in the Internet is to spread the media with increasing
amounts of privately encoded documents.  This makes public cultural
resources under the monopolistic control. Therefore if we do not make
the data encoding and Internet protocols as free standards, we will
not get what we want.. the data published on the Internet is
increasingly polluted by privately encoded formats.  Since Internet at
the end is a means of publication, it is important to keep the format
of the published files as free document standards.  E.g., internet
should not be polluted by privately owned data like mp3, mp4, flash,
ppt, doc, DRM embeded media etc.  This will not let us eliminate
monopolies.


Anivar

>> For convenience, a statement of  what amounts a standard a free standard:
>>
>> A free standard should follow the following criteria:
>>
>> a standard is free IF and only IF:
>>  .  The standard is created collaboratively by all the stake holders,
>> and the process of creation is transparent.
>>  .  The standard should not be created to promote proprietary
>> interests-  the very idea of standards is interoperability.
>>  .  The format should not have any components or extensions that will
>> have dependencies on formats that do not by themselves meet all these
>> criteria.
>>  .  The standard should not have legal or technical clauses that limit
>> its us-Freedom to implement-the process of implementing the standard,
>> must  not have any patent traps.
>>  .  The standard must have multiple implementations among the vendors
>> or a single complete implementation must be equally available to all
>> parties.
>>  .  And last, but not least, the document created using such standard
>> should be decodable by all.


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