Re: [Pearg] [saag] Ten years after Snowden (2013 - 2023), is IETF keeping its promises?

Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com> Mon, 09 January 2023 11:33 UTC

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From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:33:24 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Pearg] [saag] Ten years after Snowden (2013 - 2023), is IETF keeping its promises?
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2023, 11:14 Vittorio Bertola, <vittorio.bertola=
40open-xchange.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

>
who are you, the IETF or your employer to judge or question what a
> sovereign nation of 5-10-80 million people decides for themselves through
> democratic processes? Who gave you this right and this role, and how is
> this compatible with democracy?
>

I am a software engineer. I write code and occasionally people find it
useful in their daily lives. Very occasionally it might become intensely
popular, but no more than Shakespeare's, Moliere's or Goethe's works, which
people also find likewise popular.

Who voted for them to write literature which people enjoy?

-a