Re: [Gendispatch] I-D Action: draft-halpern-gendispatch-antitrust-00.txt

["Joel M. Halpern" <[e-mail]>]

The point of the exercise from my perspective is to give people 
community agreed advice on how to avoid antitrust issues.  This helps 
protect everyone.

Watering it down to "things to think about" seems distinctluy 
counter-productive.

Yours,
Joel

On 9/5/2021 1:28 AM, Rob Sayre wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 10:16 PM Joel M. Halpern <[e-mail] 
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> 
>     As far as I can tell Rob, you are asking to remove words that have
>     value.  I do not understand any of your requests for removal.
> 
> 
> Joel,
> 
> It's not really a great argument to claim that text "has value" without 
> describing what that value is.
> 
> I removed one paragraph in the text I sent, because it was no longer 
> needed given the descriptive, rather than prescriptive, language I used. 
> The other things were rephrased.
> 
> IETF participants come to the organization with many different 
> antitrust/competitive concerns. As such, the prescriptive text in the 
> current draft could be viewed as anti-competitive in the way 
> it recommends against permitted topics, although I think this is 
> unintentional. If the goal is to make participants aware of these 
> issues, my suggested descriptive text is fine. If the goal is to protect 
> the IETF, I think the current text is actually worse than the status quo.
> 
> thanks,
> Rob
>