Re: [antitrust-policy] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-halpern-gendispatch-antitrust/

Hi Joel,

Thanks, the document looks pretty good to me. I have three questions:

1) In section 4.2, you have this point which is to be honest not fully clear to me:

"Using detailed market data to evaluate the relative implementation
      costs of two technical alternatives to decide whether one is
      significantly more feasible in the market and thus a better
      candidate for standardization."

I would think this is only a problem if that would lead to disadvantage to certain competitors or something like that…? To me this point is currently unclear and seem overly broad, so as participant I wouldn’t be really sure what to do about this advice.

2) Then at the end of the section the draft says:

“… or contacting IETF counsel directly.”

But the next section actually says

“The IETF does not provide legal advice to participants”

Isn’t that contracting?

2) And finally not sure if that’s the right advice in section 4.4 about reporting. I would think an employee should report something rather to their own company. Or do you mean the case where an independent third person would observe something? However, what would the IETF do with this information?

Mirja

> On 22. Feb 2023, at 14:46, Joel Halpern <jmh@joelhalpern.com> wrote:
> 
> When this was dispatched, I said I would poke folks again.
> 
> The authors would very much appreciate comments, opinions, and better discussion of, this draft.  We would like to be able to submit a revision addressing concerns by the cutoff, to align with the ADs goal.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Joel
> 
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