Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote in part:
On the 'misapropriation' issue, I think that it is important that people understand that nobody owns the Internet and nobody can own it. Just because the IETF won the global data design competition in the 1990s does not mean that it has perpetual ownership of it.
Seems like a peculiar version of the actual history of the IETF and of the Internet design. But, let's NOT
get into a deep philosophical discuss of what "ownership" means. Bob Braden _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf