On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Dean Anderson wrote: > Scott, your presumption of being above the law and able to act without any > regard or recognition of responsibility and obligation is exactly how > organizations get into legal trouble. > > The IETF is an activity of the ISOC. The ISOC is incorporated in the US, has a > corporate charter, bylaws, and various duties imposed on it. It is subject to > US law, and it seems, Massachussets state law. We'll see. Officially, this might be the case. De facto, is is something much larger, with much greater girth on the globe. > [** BTW, Chris Neill just recently sent me a nasty gram, 6 years later. For > those of you who don't know the story (most of you who aren't Nanog members), > Neill was fired from Verio in 1999 after Nanog members encouraged him to abuse > our relays. Sounds like corporate law enforcement to me. > This was at a time when Nanog members claimed that no laws applied > to the Internet. Was he persecuted for anything? sleekfreak pirate broadcast http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/ _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf