Re: Fwd: Can the USA welcome IETF

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Dean Anderson wrote:

> Scott, your presumption of being above the law and able to act without any
> regard or recognition of responsibility and obligation is exactly how
> organizations get into legal trouble.
>
> The IETF is an activity of the ISOC. The ISOC is incorporated in the US, has a
> corporate charter, bylaws, and various duties imposed on it.  It is subject to
> US law, and it seems, Massachussets state law.  We'll see.

Officially, this might be the case.  De facto, is is something much
larger, with much greater girth on the globe.

> [** BTW, Chris Neill just recently sent me a nasty gram, 6 years later. For
> those of you who don't know the story (most of you who aren't Nanog members),
> Neill was fired from Verio in 1999 after Nanog members encouraged him to abuse
> our relays.

Sounds like corporate law enforcement to me.

> This was at a time when Nanog members claimed that no laws applied
> to the Internet.

Was he persecuted for anything?

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