To all: A couple of weeks ago we hosted a roundtable discussion at the OTI office in Washington DC among a number of the tech policy/advocacy groups, to see whether there was some common ground or consensus among us about the accountability mechanisms that we believe need to be included in any final transition proposal. The attached is a draft of what such a statement might look like. I hasten to point out that it has NOT been vetted yet by any of the institutions/organizations we would hope might be involved in such a project, so that at this point it doesn't represent anyone's views by my own -- but I think it at least indicates the direction in which our discussions are moving, and I thought this might be a useful time to inject it into the ongoing CCWG discussions. David ******************************* David G Post - Senior Fellow, Open Technology Institute/New America Foundation blog (Volokh Conspiracy) http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/david-post book (Jefferson's Moose) http://tinyurl.com/c327w2n music http://tinyurl.com/davidpostmusic publications etc. http://www.davidpost.com *******************************