Sam Hartman <hartmans@xxxxxxx>: > This is one of the many reasons why I think the free software > community needs to get together and decide what it wants *before* > coming to the IETF. Your two people to go to on this would be RMS (representing the FSF) or me (representing the OSI); between us I believe we can speak for over 95% of the community. I know FSF's position; if and when it differs substantially from OSI's I'll tell you. On IETF-relevant issues substantive differences are quite unlikely -- the main difference between these organizations is of style and propaganda. (Some FSF partisans deny this, insisting there are deep philosophical issues dividing FSF from OSI. OSI does not reciprocate this belief, and in any case the imputed differences are not relevant to the IETF's concerns.) -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf