Re: Observations on (non-technical) changes affecting IETF operations

Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe@cdt.org> Fri, 25 March 2016 13:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: Observations on (non-technical) changes affecting IETF operations
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Someone kindly pointed out my stupidity off-list that yest this did
become an IAB-track RFC in 2013:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6973

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe@cdt.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 6:06 AM, S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> At 15:03 29-02-2016, Jari Arkko wrote:
>>>
>>> The team has been working and they have today published
>>> an -00 draft. We'd love to have your feedback and thoughts
>>> on this topic!
>>
>>
>> The draft is interesting.  Some of the topics which might be of interest
>> are: succession planning, fragmentation and cross-culture communication.
>>
>> If I am not mistaken it is the first time that a (IETF) draft acknowledges
>> that politics and technology are intertwined.
>
> I guess it depends on what you mean by politics. There have certainly
> been drafts that discuss law and policy considerations of potential
> IETF standards, including this one from us from 2003 (long before I
> was here at CDT), that while it never was seen through to official
> Informational RFC status, still has a lot of good material in it:
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-morris-policy-considerations-00
>
> "This document is motivated by the recognition that technical design
> decisions made within the IETF and other standards bodies can have
> significant impacts on public policy concerns."
>
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> Joseph Lorenzo Hall
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