In message <14534.1076433147@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Richards on writes: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > >>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Robinson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Paul> The call for papers for the relatively famous Free Software Forum > Paul> is up: > > Paul> http://papers.softwarelivre.org/index.en.html > > Paul> I was wondering if anybody from the IETF was planning to give a > Paul> talk? If not, I was going to propose a couple of sessions myself > Paul> (in a non-official, participatory way of course - I don't propose > Paul> speaking FOR the IETF so to speak): > > It would be good if someone reviewed how the IETF worked at the conference. >A lot of software developers would benefit from understanding more. I gave a talk like that at Usenix a few years ago -- feel free to point folks at the talks/ietf-usenix/ietf-usenix.htm file on my Web page. Note, of course, that many -- most? -- free software advocates do not like the IETF's policies on patents in its protocols. But that's a separate can of worms; let's *not* debate that again now... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb