> From: "John Stracke" <jstracke@incentivesystems.com> > >However, what's the point of tying someone to the > >rails after the train wreck? > > As a deterrent, I think. "Don't misrepresent the ITU position, because > they know whom they sent, and you'll blow your credibility in the ITU." Those who care enough about their credibility to not misrepresent the ITU position won't misrepresent it whether they are official representatives or not. Those who are swayed by other considerations will, as in that infamous IEEE 802.3 case, be swayed even if they are official representatives. Some people are incapable of foreseeing the possibility that they might be held accountable for what they see as minor fibs or saying what they think they will be able to convince the ITU to do expecially if the IETF has gone that way--again, apparently as in that IEEE 802.3 example. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com