Re: [d@DCC] MS censors UN document

From: "Scott Elcomb" <psema4 _-at-_ gmail.com>
To: "General Copyright Discussions (questions, organizing, etc)" <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 16:58:26 -0400
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On 5/29/07, mgurst@vcn.bc.ca <mgurst@vcn.bc.ca> wrote:
> One final note, to call the proceedings a "UN document" is a gross
> distortion... The conference was not I believe an "official" UN conference
> but may have been "endorsed" by one or another UN agency--it happens
> fairly often; and the proceedings were the proceedings of a mostly
> Austrian funded and sponsored conference that mattered very little in the
> great scheme of things and wasn't so far as I know of much significance
> even in the context of WSIS.

Thanks for your thoughts MG.  Again, more recent references would be
wonderful, but going on what you've provided thus far...

I understand that happens, (too often for my personal liking) but does
not the fact that a document "endorsed" by a UN agency (regardless of
the sponsorship of any individual or group of nations), regarding a
related conference, make said document - in it's final form - an
"official" UN document?

Perhaps it was sponsored by Austria, but if it is a UN document why
then should MS have _any_ control over the contents of the document?

There are many areas in which I could use schooling - politics first
among them.  =)

Thanks again.
- Scott.

-- 
Scott Elcomb

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