"Procedural #Openness as a Distraction":
- Civil society participants want to make use of access and opportunities provided by the IETF’s procedural openness.
- "Their presence can confer unfounded #legitimacy on #IETF #processes. If civil society is in the room where decisions are made but does not have a voice that can match that of industry, the sheer fact of their participation in debates can function as a rubber stamp."
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