Re: [Recentattendees] Background on Singapore go/no go for IETF 100

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Tue, 31 May 2016 03:38 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 12:38:01 +0900
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Subject: Re: [Recentattendees] Background on Singapore go/no go for IETF 100
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On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:31 PM, <lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> > But there's another problem, too: because the IETF is a technical
> organization
> > that publishes documents, everyone who participates in the IETF by
> definition
> > finds it acceptable to make technical statements, otherwise they
> wouldn't be
> > IETF participants. That's what they signed up for. They might not be
> willing
> > to make statements in other fields, because that's not what they signed
> up for.
> > We don't know until we ask them. We might want to do that before making
> > non-technical statements in the name of the organization.
>
> too late.
>
> See e.g RFC3271 ('ideology', 'noble goal'), RFC1984, RFC7258...
>
> The IETF is now a function of the Internet Society (ISOC), expressing
> the policies of the Internet Society within its technical domain.
>

But a statement around the legal rights of same-sex partners is not "within
its technical domain"? It's not within any technical domain, in fact...