"Consultants: These guys are your best bets as moderators. Get a well-known consultant on your side early, but don’t let him publish anything blatantly pro-Microsoft. Then, get him to propose himself to the conference organizers as a moderator, whenever a panel opportunity comes up.

Analysts: Analysts sell out - that’s their business model But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with."

--Internal Microsoft document

As more evidence that the BRM in Geneva is out of control [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], consider this from Denmark

Re: In Denmark, Microsoft has 2 out of 4 votes

InzpektorInzpektor 18 Feb 2008, 15:20 BST

The Danish delegation for the BRM will consist of:

* IBM * Dansk Standard (the national standards body) * Microsoft - Themselves! * Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Ciber A/S

So, I guess that means that the Danish votes are a tie. (Ofcourse with the national standards body being the joker here :-) )

Reference: http://www.ds.dk/3537 (In Danish)

More information in the cited post talks about a paid (by Microsoft) Wikipedia editor who will be representing Australia. Add this case of insanity to various others such as Britain's representation and Portugal's representation. Microsoft totally owns the BRM in Geneva, either directly or by proxy (Microsoft business partners, ECMA and so forth). ⬆