Hello:
(I copy this to the poisson list, since I am somehow blocked from
the IETF list).
I am fully understand what your concern is. But,
- what should those "corporate representative" do?
- where should they go?
best regards,
--
Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim - VLSM-TJT - http://rms46.vlsm.org
--- the father of internet (al gore) for IAB -- NOMCOM2000
John W Noerenberg II wrote:
> As a representative of of one of the co-hosts for this meeting, I am
> equally gratified and terrorized to have the distinction hosting the
> largest IETF meeting to date (I fully expect this meeting to be
> surpassed soon). Fred's summary of the diversity of the IETF was
> truly impressive.
>
> But in retrospect, one thing he said bothered me greatly. He
> mentioned there were representatives of some five hundred different
> organizations at this meeting. That too is impressive. But it's
> that word "representative" I find disquieting.
>
> We are here not as corporate representatives, but as individuals
> committed to building the best Internet we can. Becoming part of a
> working group means you leave your company badge at the door. As the
> Internet has become more and more a commercial place, and the setting
> for business and commerce, the pressure to bend the way the Internet
> works to one's particular advantage at the expense of others
> increases.
>
> This is not part of our heritage. It is not part of our Tao. We
> come together because the Internet belongs to no one country, or
> organization. Rather it exists for all. We can look forward to a
> Net which not only spans the Earth, but gives every person in every
> country, the opportunity and the means to learn from any other
> regardless of their home, their beliefs or their physical
> capabilities.
>
> It is a wonderful thing. And we must remember it is our
> responsibility to preserve and enhance it for those who will come
> after.
>
> --
>
> john noerenberg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> If we admire the Net, should not a burden of proof fall on those
> who would change the basic assumptions that brought it about in
> the first place?
> -- David Brin, "The Transparent Society", 1998
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