On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 02:34, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > I said this: if IETF wants to know what form of patent license will be > acceptable to the open-source community, the people to ask are Richard > Stallman (representing FSF) and myself (representing OSI). > > Between us (and especially if we agree), I believe we can speak *with > regard to this question* for 95% of the open-source community. This > does not make either of us power-mad dictators intent on domination, > just most peoples' recognized experts on what constitutes an > acceptable open-source license. This looks to me like an informal attempt at forming a "design team". I think it would be good for you (ESR) to review the text on design teams in RFC2418 and the subsequent IESG note: http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/Design-Teams.txt because it provides time-tested, sage advice on how to go about producing something which stands a chance of being accepted by us baboons in the peanut gallery. - Bill _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf