[governance] What the IETF is thinking about Prism these days..

[McTim]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 4:48 AM, JFC Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> wrote:
> At 18:14 27/09/2013, McTim wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
>> <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
>> > This is the 'there is no silver bullet' argument civil society will have
>> > heard in a variety of presentations across sectors.
>>
>> And the IETF does not "thnk" monolithicaly.  There will be a spectrum
>> of viewpoints inside the IETF as diverse as its participants.  It is
>> not an "organisation"  per se, rather a group of volunteers (altho
>> recently it has more of a secretariat than in previous decades.
>
>
> A "secretariat"? This is an interesting point of view.
>
> Do you mean by that they tend to endorse external propositions? or that the
> technology is developped enough to act as rails that IETF is to follow?  or
> that in becoming an ISOC affilitate, and now adhering to OpenStand they lost
> independency (and possibly IAB wisdom and/or guidance)? Or something else?

Something else:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretariat_(administrative_office)





-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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