Re: Important Information about IETF 76 Meeting Registration

["Doug Ewell" <[e-mail]>]

Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw dot com> wrote:

>> Please note that you are now also collecting information that *is 
>> not* on the current blue sheets, namely "company/organization 
>> affiliation".
>
> I thought that was the "problem" to which you were alluding. And my 
> question remains: Is there any evidence that participants in IETF 
> should not provide their company/organization affiliation when they 
> participate? Is there something to hide?

Speaking only as an RFC author and WG participant, not as an IETF 
conference attendee, either in the past or in the foreseeable future...

I declined to state either my previous or current employer as my 
"affiliation" for either RFC 4645 or draft-4645bis, and instead listed 
myself as "Consultant," for two reasons: (1) neither employer has ever 
provided any support for my activities in the LTRU WG, and (2) a certain 
particularly ill-willed participant in LTRU had already used another 
participant's "affiliation" against him, writing to the legal department 
of that person's employer and demanding that he be professionally 
disciplined, something I didn't feel like risking for myself.

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Doug Ewell  *  Thornton, Colorado, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
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