Re: [Gendispatch] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-halpern-gendispatch-antitrust-03.txt

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On 23/10/2022 04:40, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
> There's another aspect to this. If some academic (or international
> civil servant, like I used to be) stands up in an IETF session and says
> "I want to discuss why XX's cost per megabit are higher than ZZ's",
> any employee of XX or ZZ that doesn't leave the room may be violating
> anti-trust or competition law. In other words, the academic may not
> have broken the law, but they've poisoned the discussion for other
> participants.

Yes, unless it were relevant to the discussion at hand,
raising that would be a bad idea.

OTOH, it is IMO entirely fine to criticise protocol designs
that would favour the current Google/Apple duopoly in mobile
operating systems. In fact, we ought consider it our duty to
raise such criticisms, and to do so clearly, where they are
relevant.

S.


> 
> So we don't talk about such things.