RE: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm

John E Drake <jdrake@juniper.net> Wed, 15 August 2012 12:44 UTC

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From: John E Drake <jdrake@juniper.net>
To: Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:41:14 -0700
Subject: RE: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hannes Tschofenig [mailto:hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:38 AM
> To: John E Drake
> Cc: Hannes Tschofenig; Brian E Carpenter; Eliot Lear; iab@iab.org;
> ietf@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm
> 
> 
> On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:16 PM, John E Drake wrote:
> 
> >> I take it that John's question is really *why* do these principles
> >> need to be articulated in public. Perhaps the IAB should answer
> that,
> >> but my answer
> >> is: because there is a real danger of some SDOs, including but not
> >> limited to the ITU-T, breaking them for a variety of commercial or
> >> political reasons.
> >
> > JD:  And how does this document prevent this abuse?
> 
> Of course a document by itself, even if it contains the nicest
> principles, cannot prevent abuse.
> So, see it rather as a writeup that tries to capture the understanding
> of a number of SDOs.

JD:  To what purpose?  As an aside, I get the 'feel-good' aspect, but is there anything more?