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

[McTim]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:33 PM, JFC Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> wrote:
> At 14:07 28/09/2013, McTim wrote:
>>
>> >> 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)
>
>
> Sorry, this does not make sense to me: IETF secretariat matters have been
> removed from them and are in charge of the IAOC jointly supported by ISOC?


I thought ISOC had from the very early days been the admin home of the IETF.

> Anyway the main point is that your remark seemed to imply something in
> relation with Michael's information on Brian's IETF Draft?


nope, implied nothing of the sort.


-- 
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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