Subject: Re: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm
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From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 07:04:44 -0700
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Greetings again. At the plenary last night, Russ said that the expected =
signatories are those three organizations and hopefully other SDOs. =
People active in SDOs other than those three were encouraged to try to =
get those additional SDOs to sign the final wording.

However, it seems like many other organizations could strongly support =
the document and possibly want to do so publicly by becoming =
signatories. There is nothing at the bottom that says "The following =
SDOs are signatories". Is there any intention of letting organizations =
that are not SDOs become signatories? For example, the VPN Consortium =
(which explicitly does no standards development, but tests systems that =
are based on the standards from the IETF) strongly supports what is in =
this document and would want to be a signatory if that was available. I =
imagine other consortia, and probably even vendors, would also want to =
be signatories. It would be useful to hear what non-SDOs who support =
these principles can do to either become signatories or to support the =
document when it is signed by SDOs.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium