On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:19:39 -0800, Harald Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > --On 9. november 2006 07:20 -0800 "Narayanan, Vidya" <vidyan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Hi Avri, > > You make valid points. However, I assume that a company system > > administrator has nothing to do with the IETF. > > That assumption is unfounded. > Several of us run our IETF-related services out of non-corporate systems > where the sysadmin is a volunteer, and very often an IETF-clued volunteer. > > (in my particular case, the sysadmin is myself - but there are other people > who know what the IETF is who also have the root password, Just In Case....) > Indeed. I run a machine that happens to host several IETF-related mailing lists and a web site; Randy Bush's machine was and is even more heavily used that way. Two former members of the I* have the root word to my machine; the same is true for Randy's. More to the point, the thought that companies are not interested in the IETF or the Nomcom is a myth --a pleasant myth, but a myth nevertheless. There's a reason why there's now a ban on too many Nomcom members from the same company. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf