IESG restructuring (Re: Example of the One Liners out of
context)
Eric Rescorla
ekr at rtfm.com
Wed May 28 15:24:37 CEST 2003
"Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette at wz-berlin.de> writes:
> On 28 May 2003 at 21:58, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> The IETF could be interpreted as a polis in the modern sense. It is
> supposed to care about the Internet as opposed to single companies or
> applications.
The problem, is that "care about the Internet" isn't really a
well-formed concept, any more than "the public good" is. One can, of
course, adopt any number of theories designed to give it concrete
meaning, but I doubt we could get consensus on any of them.
-Ekr
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