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 |
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| Organization | IBM |
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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 _______________________________________________ diffserv mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/diffserv Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/diffserv/current/maillist.html