Examination of Witness (Questions 118-119)
Mr Bertie Armstrong
19 MARCH 2008
Q118 Chairman: Welcome. Thank you
for finding the time both to prepare your written evidence and
to come and see us today. We are very grateful.
Mr Armstrong: Thank you very much, my Lord Chairman.
I am pleased to be here.
Q119 Chairman: We proceed on these
things, if you wish—and it will be often quite helpful—to
have a general statement from yourself and then we go through
a question and answer session—and I hope you have an indication
of the subjects that we are likely to cover. Would you like to
say something in general?
Mr Armstrong: Yes, please. Although it is not
necessarily wholly apposite to the questions you have asked, it
is worth me making our position clear on the CFP in general, because
it always becomes part of the debate. I have stated in my written
evidence that if the CFP did not exist, a similar framework, an
international framework, in order to properly manage a mobile
resource accessed from several different places and in several
different places, would have to exist. That can be interpreted
as support for the CFP per se. That is not the case. I
would not like to be seen as an apologist for the CFP. I would
like to be seen as a reforming zealot for the CFP. That is not
the same as, "Armstrong agrees with the CFP in its present
form". That sets the scene.
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