Spencer, However, many people here are not using their 'individual money' to get here in Paris. Our name badges list our employers (in most cases). I think its a different issue if I come to the mic and say, 'We at the ACME company would like to state, for the record, that we support the foo bar proposal and hope it becomes an official RFC as soon as possible. It doesn't bug me one-way or another if folks state their name & who pays the bills. John > From: "Spencer Dawkins" <spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2005/08/01 Mon PM 05:44:54 EEST > To: "IETF General Discussion Mailing List" <ietf@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: I'm not the microphone police, but ... > > >From RFC 2418 section 1 > ... > Participation is by individual technical contributors, rather than > by > formal representatives of organizations. > > It seems like we're being especially casual about saying, "I'm Waldo > from Walden Pond Networks, and ..." or even "I'm giving you the > requirements from the Grand Order of Network Water Buffaloes, and > ...". > > I'm still telling people in the Newcomer's Orientation that we attend > as individuals. Could we be a little more careful about saying things > that make us sound like other standards organizations? > > Thanks! > > Spencer > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf