Re: Hard questions (was: Diffserv PIB approved as Informational RFC)

Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:52:21 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.diffserv
Organization IBM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Lloyd Wood wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Dan Grossman wrote:
> 
> > > That is really work for a trade association, not for the IETF, imho.
> >
> > Perhaps you'd care to point out where in RFC2026, or RFC 2418 or in any IESG position statement
> > there is a statement that the IETF will defer technical work to a trade association?
> 
> Wait a minute. Why is the IETF not a trade association?

Trade associations are carefully constituted so that they can discuss matters
touching on business issues without infringing anti-trust laws. The IETF
isn't one.

There may well be some technical work (see Mai Trang's message) but we
have to stay away from business issues.

  Brian

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