<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I would recommend amending this to require that participants have an email address.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It seems to me that useful participation in the PDP by stakeholders is better defined in this way in that if you have a stake in the internet, it’s hard to imagine a scenario in which you wouldn’t be able to obtain at least one email address at a sufficiently low burden.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Further, I think that lacking an email address means an inability to participate in the PDWG mailing list. As such, I think it would preclude informed participation in the process.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 2, 2016, at 13:33 , abel ELITCHA <<a href="mailto:kmw.elitcha@gmail.com" class="">kmw.elitcha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Hello Andrew,<br class=""></p><p class="">Comments inline.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Le 1 nov. 2016 19:34, "Andrew Alston" <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" target="_blank" class="">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.<wbr class="">com</a>> a écrit :<br class="">
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> You are right – proxies aren’t allowed at PDP – except in this case, they are not proxies. I am the direct administrative contact for those organisations and hence I speak for each of them, one organisation at a time.<br class="">
></p><p dir="ltr" class="">Participation in PDP discussions is by individual and not by organization. Hence the direct administrative contact role you have for organizations would be irrelevant in the policy discussions. </p><p dir="ltr" class=""> Section 3.2.1 of the PDP says:</p><p dir="ltr" class="">===================</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Openness</p><p dir="ltr" class="">All policies are developed in an open forum in which anyone may participate. There are no qualifications for participation.<br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">===================</p><p dir="ltr" class="">*Co-chairs should correct me if I'm wrong*. </p><p dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">Merci.</p><p class="">--Abel</p><p dir="ltr" class="">><br class="">
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