Re: [hrpc] new title for draft-tenoever-hrpc-political

[Amelia Andersdotter <[e-mail]>]

On 2018-07-27 13:02, Tony Rutkowski wrote:
> Other thought on your paper.  The dimensions you raise with respect to
> politics and standards have existed since the first multilateral
> internet meeting dealing with standards in 1850.   Bill Drake has spent
> his academic career treating the subject.  All standards activities of
> ever kind involves politics, and an enormous body of work exists on the
> subject over many decades.  In most places in your paper,  you could
> simply drop the IETF references.  The IETF is not really different from
> any others.   The paper would have broader  impact by applying to
> standards bodies writ broadly.

It was my idea when I contributed to this effort that the point of the
document is to look at the specificities of the IETF. And there are
some: for instance, the IETF has, to a larger extent than other SDOs,
avoided IPR complications by research cited in the draft. Even issues
that are normally fairly closed, such as externalities (financing,
social context), are fairly openly discussed in the IETF.

So I think there is a value in not expanding the scope to SDOs in general.

best regards,

-- 
Amelia Andersdotter
Technical Consultant, Digital Programme

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