Emma, On 08/21/2013 05:32 AM, Emma Frost wrote:
> So this is a site where several organisations have signed up to some > principles relating to surveillance (the ISOC Board have signed) > and I wondered if this was something that UKNOF would want to sign up > to? > https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/text > > I think it would be good to have UKNOF sign, but maybe some feel that > would make the group too 'political'? I'm going to refer you to UKNOF's charter (http://www.uknof.org.uk/charter.html): "UKNOF's remit is technical, and any discussion or activities involving commercial, legal or political issues should be limited to where they have a direct impact on technical aspects of network operations." We don't as an organisation take public policy positions, so signing position statements is just not something UKNOF does. That doesn't mean we can't discuss and share information about public policy proposals, legislation and regulations where they are going to have a direct impact on running the UK's network infrastructure. > Or maybe some of you would like to recommend it to your own > organisations: There's plenty of other organisations around that exist primarily to engage in forming public policy, UKNOF participants are of course free to support these, and lobby them to adopt positions, in their own right as they see fit. And UKNOF is of course about open sharing of information, so thank you for giving everyone a heads-up on the above. Hope that clarifies. Keith
