Re: [IAB] Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

[Glen Zorn <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 20:49 -0700, SM wrote:

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> 
> At 19:06 11-08-2012, Glen Zorn wrote:
> >any one other than themselves.  If support by IETF members at-large 
> >is to be signified, then an online petition of some sort would be a 
> >much better idea & much less deceptive.
> 
> RFCs, for example RFC 1984, have been used for such statements.


Sorry, I don't get your point.  The referenced RFC says

   The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering
   Steering Group (IESG), the bodies which oversee architecture and
   standards for the Internet, are concerned by the need for increased
   protection of international commercial transactions on the Internet,
   and by the need to offer all Internet users an adequate degree of
   privacy.

Presumably, the IAB & IESG came to this concern through consensus and
the document expresses the consensus (along with the rather typical
sense of exaggerated self-importance ;-))
of those bodies.  It pointedly does not claim to represent the opinion
of the entire IETF, but neither does the document under discussion
(unless the royal usage of "we" is intended) and that's how it should
be.  


> 
> Regards,
> -sm 
>