Re: [antitrust-policy] Who enforces an Antitrust Policy for the IETF

[Jorge Contreras <[e-mail]>]

I would not anticipate an official "enforcer" either.  A main benefit
of the policy is to provide IETF (i.e., ISOC/IETF Trust) a defense if
it is sued for an antitrust violation committed by its participants.
At least the organization can say: "We don't condone that type of
behavior.  See our policy that expressly prohibits it."

On 1/20/12, Marshall Eubanks <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Russ Housley <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> John:
>>
>>>> If you observe behavior in violation of these guidelines at an IETF
>>>> meeting, please do not be silent; formally object.
>>>
>>> What does that mean?  Let's say I hear two guys in the next row
>>> talking about product pricing.  I say, hey, you can't talk about that.
>>> They laugh at me and continue.  Now what?
>>>
>>> Or if this instruction or something like it goes into the Note Well,
>>> it's making every IETF attendee responsible for the behavior of
>>> everyone else.  If someone's hauled into court, they're going to say
>>> well, gee, the IETF specifically tells people to police anti-trust
>>> violations, nobody said anything to us about it, so the IETF agreed
>>> with what we did.
>>>
>>> I have trouble imagining a problem this mess is supposed to solve that
>>> is anywhere near as ugly as the swamp it's leading into.
>>
>> I'd like to think that we do not need to assign someone to enforce the
>> antitrust policy.
>>
>> I see them a guidelines for proper behavior.  When we see someone do
>> something surprising on a mail list (such as posting a job opening) they
>> person gets a lot of private messages to stop.  If they continue, public
>> messages follow.  This usually gets the behavior corrected.  This is in
>> like with the story shared by Brian.
>>
>
> +1
>
> Marshall
>
>> Russ
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