Minor comments on draft-ietf-problem-statement-00.txt

[Brian E Carpenter]

RJ Atkinson wrote:
> 
> On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 11:53 America/Montreal, Margaret Wasserman
> wrote:
> > In the past, I have heard people object to statements such as
> > "the IETF is an SDO", on the grounds that the IETF also does
> > other things (research, publication of non-standard documents,
> > operational advice, etc.).
> >
> > If everyone agrees that the IETF is an SDO, we could remove
> > the wording that indicates otherwise.
> >
> > Margaret
> 
> If that is done, I would strongly prefer wording that does not LIMIT
> IETF to only being an SDO.  There are other things that get done
> besides standards-development and we don't want to exclude those,
> IMHO.
 
Fully concur. Just avoid any words that look like a trade association.

   Brian