Re: The IETF & The new Telecommunications ACT

Brian Carpenter CERN-CN <brian@dxcoms.cern.ch> Wed, 20 March 1996 07:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: The IETF & The new Telecommunications ACT
To: Scott Bradner <sob@newdev.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:33:10 +0100
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Scott,

When you talk to the lawyers, don't forget that
we are an international body. The US legal system
tends to try to ignore this, but that is of course
exactly why the ISOC direct membership of ITU,
and the pending recognition  of our standards by
JTC1, are so important.

   Brian