Who is this document for? Section 2.3 seems pretty heavily biased toward the protection of IETF, which is really the point, but it emphasizes one risk over the other very strongly. Could this avoid that bias and just present facts? > There are two overlapping areas of concern the IETF has in connection with antitrust compliance: > > 1. The IETF cannot have anyone who is officially representing the IETF, in any capacity, engage in problematic antitrust behavior. This would result in liability for the IETF. > > 2. The IETF cannot be a forum where participants engage in problematic antitrust behavior. Even if direct liability for that behavior falls on those participants and not the IETF, this would result in reputational harm to the IETF. The reputation of the IETF is basically all it has, so the latter is not strictly less than the former. (Can the list in 4.1 have bullets? Is it exhaustive?) On Sat, May 18, 2024, at 12:01, Mark Nottingham wrote: > Thanks for all of the work on this, it looks reasonable to me. > > One nit: 2.1 says '“Antitrust” is the word that is used in the US and > in several other jurisdictions' > > 'several' is pushing it; this is pretty much just the US and sometimes > Canada, AIUI. > > Cheers, > > >> On 18 May 2024, at 6:16 AM, The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the >> following document: - 'Antitrust Guidelines for IETF Participants' >> <draft-halpern-gendispatch-antitrust-08.txt> as Informational RFC >> >> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final >> comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the >> last-call@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2024-06-14. Exceptionally, comments may >> be sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the beginning >> of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. >> >> Abstract >> >> >> This document provides education and guidance for IETF participants >> on compliance with antitrust laws and how to reduce antitrust risks >> in connection with IETF activities. >> >> >> >> >> The file can be obtained via >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-halpern-gendispatch-antitrust/ >> >> >> >> No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IETF-Announce mailing list -- ietf-announce@xxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe send an email to ietf-announce-leave@xxxxxxxx > > -- > Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/ > > -- > last-call mailing list -- last-call@xxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to last-call-leave@xxxxxxxx -- last-call mailing list -- last-call@xxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to last-call-leave@xxxxxxxx
