<div dir="ltr">As to what to replace AHG with, I already proposed that and was discussed at the previous video meeting: that work be done in W3C WG and result trickle down into OFF.<div><br>But in the month since that meeting it has been fully forgotten that this was discussed and now the chairs of the W3C CG that was formed after my proposal seem to think OFF is out of scope for that group.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">behdad<br><a href="http://behdad.org/" target="_blank">http://behdad.org/</a></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:52 AM Behdad Esfahbod <<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org">behdad@behdad.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:17 AM Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dcrossland@google.com" target="_blank">dcrossland@google.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:22 AM Behdad Esfahbod <<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org" target="_blank">behdad@behdad.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 9:16 AM Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dcrossland@google.com" target="_blank">dcrossland@google.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:53 AM Behdad Esfahbod <<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org" target="_blank">behdad@behdad.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 7:10 AM Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dcrossland@google.com" target="_blank">dcrossland@google.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div><div dir="auto">So, I see no reason to discontinue the AHG while the possibility that it can be reformed is so clear. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"Is so clear".. as in, the chair continues to completely deny that there is any problem?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Vlad did not deny there is a problem. He asked for you to provide more substance. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>He has continually been praising the AHG as a model of how to do work. I'm not asking he to agree with any of my allegations, but to acknowledge that there are outstanding allegations of problems, and provide me a way to present them to a fair and impartial group who has authority. He has refused to so far.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What I hear Vlad saying is that he DOES acknowledges that there are outstanding allegations of problems,</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can you point out where he does that?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> and in return he would like you to do 2 things: </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is no "in return".</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>1. Acknowledge that there are aspects of the past/status-quo that are successful. I think this would make you seem more reasonable.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Seriously? No abuser is abusive all the time. Variable-fonts were a great success. I understand boasting others' ego is much more effective to get them to agree with me. But I had a moral awakening in the past six months and stopped doing that. I've been doing that since 2014 and I regret it now.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Adam Twardoch is often modelling this kind of 'reasonable' way of communicating, being polite - even joking around - while also making serious points. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Great. Women at work are also told they can smile more if they want to be promoted equally as men are.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I myself learned, from him and others, that it is useful to do this, because it encourages my audience to actually listen to me, instead of forming a knee-jerk emotionally negative reaction to not listen and dismiss what I am saying out of hand. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm talking about rights. You are talking about norms.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I see that you feel strong emotions about this situation, and want to express them - and that asking you to "calm down" is actually escalating the emotional charge rather than de-escalating it (which is called "tone policing" and is a well-documented social dynamic, if not well-known.)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Correct. Thanks for acknowledging that.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>So I want to be explicit that I am not asking you to communicate differently, but in saying "I proposal to discontinue the AdHoc Group," I am keen to hear from you what should replace it, and that will also involve enumerating the aspects of the AHG that are successful and seeking to retain. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The part that is good and I want to keep: be group of *experts*, not countries. The part that is bad and needs to be replaced: being adhoc. Hence my proposal to incorporate as W3C WG.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>2. Provide concrete examples of what you are complaining about, or the context in which, what you are complaining did not happen, has occurred in.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I provided over a dozen technical examples on this list already. I will record a video of my personal allegations and publish this week.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>In order for Vlad to provide you or me or anyone in the AHG some special access to ISO people, beyond emails to this list, I think it is valid for him to ask us provide at the main points we want to make, first, so that Vlad can send a request to the possible 'judge' people to specially spend their time and attention on some matter. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So if I walk into a bank and tell the teller that I want to talk to their supervisor, they should demand to hear what I want to talk to the supervisor about and decide whether to give me access or not? As I explained on Twitter in a thread that I believe you read, that's broken because is prone to hijack:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://twitter.com/behdadesfahbod/status/1295804748499623937" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/behdadesfahbod/status/1295804748499623937</a><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I think that is necessary in order for a judge to decide to spend the time, because the AHG is open to the general public, and "frivolous" complaints often happen.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's why I put my reputation behind my complaints. Even then no one with powers stepped in or offered to hear me out. A few people outside our immediate industry did, and they have been immensely helpful to me to navigate the ISO/W3C, etc.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> I am quite sure that with the massive increase in volume of emails to this list in the last few months, not every message is being read and considered.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Exactly. Hence trying to figure out *who* I have to talk to before I spend days of writing that will not be read by anyone who can do anything about it.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>We were just discussing yesterday in <a href="https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat/issues/12#issuecomment-695879127" target="_blank">https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat/issues/12#issuecomment-695879127</a> that the MERG table may be a good concrete example of such substance to complain about, for example.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have provided over a dozen:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.aau.at/pipermail/mpeg-otspec/2020-August/001925.html" target="_blank">https://lists.aau.at/pipermail/mpeg-otspec/2020-August/001925.html</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.aau.at/pipermail/mpeg-otspec/2020-August/002017.html" target="_blank">https://lists.aau.at/pipermail/mpeg-otspec/2020-August/002017.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>But you just keep asking me for evidence while completely ignoring it when I provide!</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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