Hi - > Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:03:34 -0800 (PST) > From: Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com> > To: RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com> > Cc: "'Stephane Bortzmeyer'" <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>, <ietf@ietf.org> > Subject: Re: DNSEXT WGLC Summary: AXFR clarify > In-Reply-To: <D803B53C-1379-11D7-8949-00039357A82A@extremenetworks.com> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212190958020.9761-100000@flash.ar.com> ... > I like that we have individuals at the ietf meetings rather than company > representatives, in the long run it creates less politics. ... At best, this is a useful fiction. My limited experience has been that the politics in the IETF are much thicker and less transparent than in ANSI-accredited technical committees or in the ISO/ITU collaborative work I've seen. On the other hand, some industry consortia seem far more opaque. YMMV, but I've found that even when folks truly believe they are speaking as individuals, their thinking may nonetheless be influenced by their company's business model and technology focus. Our knowledge of requirements is strongly influenced by the customers we talk to. I think this is particularly true in small technology companies, where it is all but impossible to separate the company view from the perspective of its key technical people. Potential conflicts of interest worry me most in the process of deciding whether a WG will work on something, since this is what most directly affects business models and licensing strategies of organizations that may have an interest in something *not* being standardized, or in letting the market drive a particular implementation into the position of "de facto standard". Once the decision has been made to permit a WG to work on a particular problem, I think our normal technical review processes should be trusted to ensure that the solution chosen is fairly reasonable. One of the ironies of disclosure is that sometimes others will read ulterior motives into the actions of someone who is going out of their way to avoid blocking or interfering with work that, for whatever reason, they do not chose to actively support. ------------------------------------------------------ Randy Presuhn BMC Software, Inc. SJC-1.3141 randy_presuhn@bmc.com 2141 North First Street Tel: +1 408 546-1006 San José, California 95131 USA ------------------------------------------------------ My opinions and BMC's are independent variables. ------------------------------------------------------