The IETF's problems

[todd glassey]

James - you have illustrated one of the key problems facing the IETF and
that is that it is NOT a fair and open platform for standards processes.

todd
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Seng" <jseng at pobox.org.sg>
To: "todd glassey" <todd.glassey at worldnet.att.net>
Cc: "Contreras, Jorge" <Jorge.Contreras at haledorr.com>; "Keith Moore"
<moore at cs.utk.edu>; "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch at muada.com>;
<problem-statement at alvestrand.no>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: The IETF's problems


> > No James you cannot. You can decide what you personally want to work on
but
> > the instant you try and stop someone else's initiative you become a
legal
> > problem to the organization. The IETF is not your personal resource, in
fact
> > the vetting resource is not the IETF's at all. It belongs to the
> > participants, and any refusal to allow any protocol or submission in is
a
> > problem.
>
> We (as in IETF) can decide what we want to do or not, like it or not, as
> a group. If someone comes along and say they have a solution for world
> hunger and wants to publish it as an RFC, we will tell them "go away".
>
> Proposals not accepted in IETF can seek out other groups or they are
> free to deploy it anyway. IETF could not and will not step them. It is
> not a legal problem.
>
> -James Seng
>