In message <200304212341.h3LNf5sj001409@calcite.rhyolite.com>, Vernon Schryver writes: > >> Director, Internet Standards, Technology >> & Policy Project >> Center for Democracy and Technology > >What does democracy have to do with technical standards or other >information in general and the IETF in particular? > Among the many public policy issues that the IETF has been involved in -- i.e., that affect out "technical" standards -- are privacy, wiretapping, crypto export, and IPR. We won't even go into the whole ICANN space. (John Morris, to whom that comment was addressed, is an author of at least three WG drafts. I, for one, am glad to have him around the IETF.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)