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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 06 September 2021 03:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] I-D Action: draft-halpern-gendispatch-antitrust-00.txt
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On 06-Sep-21 12:51, lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> " - Summaries oversimplify, and grow outdated. 
> - Bright line dos/don’ts miss important nuance.
> - Mechanical recitals become ‘white noise.’ "
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> I am very much in agreement with this.
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-halpern-gendispatch-antitrust-00
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> says
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> "   participants should not discuss the following topics:
> [..]
> *  employee compensation or benefits"
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> IETF engineers can't discuss employee compensation or benefits?

What the draft advises is that such matters should not be part of a standardisation discussion. Not being an anti-trust or competition lawyer, I don't know why such a discussion might be a legal exposure, but it would be a very silly thing to discuss in a standardisation context, so I can't see any conceivable objection to the advice.

   Brian

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> Frankly, from an engineer perspective, that sounds not so much anti-trust, as anti-union.
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> Lloyd Wood 
> lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk
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> On Monday, 6 September 2021, 04:10:04 GMT+10, Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote: 
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> On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 10:51 AM Joel M. Halpern <jmh@joelhalpern.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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> Well, I guess the counterpoint is that section "5. Recommended Behavior" suffers from all of the issues outlined in that 2020 IETF LLC statement.* The IETF LLC had the same counsel at the time, btw. 
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> - Summaries oversimplify, and grow outdated. 
> - Bright line dos/don’ts miss important nuance.
> - Mechanical recitals become ‘white noise.’ 
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> By refraining from guiding behavior around a 6 point bulleted list, my edits make it clear that such summaries do little to "protect" participants or the IETF. I mean, it seems like I'm the only person that has ever read the existing slides thoroughly enough to notice that they are buggy.
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> There are plenty of other sections in the draft that seem fine, and I have no objection to the draft appearing linked from the "Note Well" page in general.
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> thanks,
> Rob
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> * https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-statement-competition-law-issues/
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