On 9 Dec 2003, Franck Martin wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 15:15, Randy Presuhn wrote: > > > Hi - > > > > How would replacing ICANN (or the IETF) with the ITU > > make things any less unilateral? As I see it, all that it would > > accomplish is that it would give governments and corporations > > a more direct voice in matters, at the expense of individual > > technical contributors. > > > > Randy > > And one important fact, is that IETF issues standards which do not > contain patents... but ITU does! <LPF President hat> Sadly, this isn't true. The IETF is to take no position on software patents, but some RFCs cover patented technology. This is supposed to be disclosed by the RFC authors. --Dean