[A2k] Compilation for Paris Accord?

Philippe Aigrain philippe.aigrain@sopinspace.com
Wed Jun 7 07:07:01 2006


Le Mardi 6 Juin 2006 23:00, Manon Ress a =E9crit :
Manon,

Pour l'instant, mes comemntaires apparaissent sur cette page en partie sous
mon nom et en partie sous "'Pilippin Aigrain" (un fr=E8re que j'ignorais) ;=
-)

Philippe
> Pour l'instant nous reunissons les propositions et les commentaires
> sur cette page:
> http://www.cptech.org/a2k/parisaccord.html
>
> Je suis tout a fait d'accord sur le jargon d'experts que nous devons
> essayer d'eviter le plus possible.  Et il faut se souvenir que la
> liste comprend des non-experts en politiques des logiciels ou des
> medicaments par exemple.  Enfin, il y aura bien des interpretes pour
> le meeting a Paris mais en attendant, sur la liste, nous ne sommes
> pas tous parfaitement anglophones.
>
> Ludovic,
> thanks for the email and the good suggestions
>
> For now we're compiling the proposals and comments at:
> http://www.cptech.org/a2k/parisaccord.html
>
> I agree strongly about the jargon that we should avoid as much as
> possible.  We should  remember that not everyone on the list is an
> expert in software or medicines etc..  And while there will be
> interpretations at the Paris meeting, not everyone on the list is
> English speaking like a native.
>
> A bientot ;)
>
> Manon
>
> On Jun 6, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Ludovic Penet wrote:
> > Le mardi 06 juin 2006 =E0 15:07 +0100, Nick Ashton-Hart a =E9crit :
> >> Philippe, many thanks for the kind words :)
> >>
> >> As regards the below, I have some questions and points:
> >>
> >> Most broadly, I have very deliberately referred almost entirely to
> >> RMI and TPMs, and not DRMs for a very specific reason:
> >
> > Is there a consolidated of the project of accord available somewhere ?
> > It would be quite useful to put it on a wiki, even a private one,
> > as it
> > can be hard to follow all of the interesting discussion that take
> > place
> > on this list.
> >
> > What is the target audience of this accord ? What I have read since I
> > subscribed to this mailing list is very interesting, but I fear that
> > journalists will have lots of difficulties to understand its
> > subtleties.
> >
> > I often had to explain journalists the meaning of the debates on the
> > French copyright law these last months. Even the best of them, and
> > excepted those who are already convinced by what we promote, have lots
> > of difficulties to understand the subtleties and even more
> > difficulties
> > to translate them in simple words for people having other center of
> > interests. Explaining people who do not know what interoperability
> > means
> > what was important in article 7 of DADVSI at 4am was a very
> > interesting
> > experience.
> >
> > So, I think that it would be good to forget all those cryptic acronyms
> > and get back to simple principles such as =AB Technology should be used
> > only to get an estimation of the number of downloads of music. It
> > should
> > not control the use of files, especially in the private space. =BB
> >
> > In fact, I almost stopped talking about interoperability - most
> > non-specialists were falling asleep after hearing this strange new
> > word.
> > I try to stick to non-technical words, such as neutrality, and to
> > define
> > them with the most simple words - I do not claim I always succeed. ;-)
> >
> > At least, proposing a very simple text in addition to the full version
> > would be very useful.
> >
> > Sorry for this short interruption in your work. :-)
> >
> > Ludovic
>
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