Ted Hardie <hardie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >No. My point was that for the IETF, interoperability is the goal, not some > >general statement about goodness of Free software. In many/most/maybe all > >cases, this will require any IPR restrictions to be GPL compatible. > > Can you think of an open-source project interested in the work of CCAMP? I don't know of an existing open-source project interested in this, but I would suggest that it is very important that it must be possible to start one. Otherwise we deny in particular people in developing countries the freedom to develop, by means of an open-source / free software project, the ability to extend purchased networking equipment with systems of their own design. Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow <nb@xxxxxxxxx> http://Norbert.ch President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG http://SIUG.ch Working on establishing a non-corrupt and truly /open/ international standards organization http://OpenISO.org _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf