Re: IETF chair's blog

[Brian Trammell <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Arturo, all,

It does not seem appropriate for a technical standards organization dedicated to making the Internet work better through the development of open standards to implicitly endorse "communication protocols" which are based on closed access to distributed databases through interfaces that can and do change at the whim of the organizations that control them, further where those organizations have demonstrated a willingness to assert editorial control over the content they disseminate.

If a social network were to emerge that allows open participation at _every_ level, based on an open application protocol therefor, that would be something different. I fear that network effects have already made  such a thing unlikely in this iteration of "Internet x.0".

(Aside: I myself have used all three listed networks to get attention for ISOC functions at the chapter level, though I'm uneasy about that. I won't dispute that they're great for outreach, and when you're doing outreach, you have to go where the people are. In my defense, though, I was advertising a talk wherein I discussed why it's a bad idea to rely on such closed platforms. :) )

Cheers,

Brian

On Feb 25, 2013, at 2:21 AM, Arturo Servin <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> Why not?
> 
> I, my organization and many more (included ISOC) have found them very useful for outreach activities. I do not see why the IETF shouldn't. Please, tell me.
> 
> 
> as
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On 25 Feb 2013, at 02:21, Marc Petit-Huguenin <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> On 02/23/2013 07:38 PM, Arturo Servin wrote:
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>>> Very good initiative.
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>>> Twitter, Google+, Facebook, etc. could be the next steps. Let's embrace new
>>> tools to collaborate.
>> 
>> Let's not.  Collaboration based on software running on servers run by the IETF
>> or a contractor payed by the IETF is fine.  Using collaboration tools owned by
>> the entities you listed, or similar entities, is not.
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>>> 
>>> Regards, as
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>>> On 22/02/2013 20:35, IETF Chair wrote:
>>>> Jari has created a blog as an experiment to see if would be possible to 
>>>> provide periodic status reports and other thoughts from the chair.
>>>> Here's the link:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.ietf.org/blog/2013/02/chairs-blog/
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>> Marc Petit-Huguenin
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