Hallam-Baker's First Law of Internet Lawyering Was: The Sgt at Arms Please? RE: TLS-authz "experimental" standard

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: The Sgt at Arms Please? RE: TLS-authz "experimental" standard

Well I found it somewhat interesting that despite the fact that I was the only person to co-author a submission to the IPR working group with an actual lawyer I still received comments of the 'amateur lawyering kind' from folk who were not lawyers and whose legalistic opinions had been flat contradicted by those who are.

 

So without more ado:

 

First Law of Internet Lawyering: Anyone who accuses another of being insufficiently qualified to state a legal opinion will in the same thread state a legal opinion that they are not qualified to make.

 

Second Law of Internet Lawyering: Both opinions will be wrong

 

Third Law of Internet Lawyering: It won't matter.

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From: TS Glassey [mailto:tglassey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tue 15/01/2008 1:05 PM
To: dcrocker@xxxxxxxx; Theodore Tso
Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: The Sgt at Arms Please? RE: TLS-authz "experimental" standard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Theodore Tso" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: The Sgt at Arms Please? RE: TLS-authz "experimental" standard


>
>
> Theodore Tso wrote:
>> Actually, to be fair, I don't think this can be laid at the feet of
>> the FSF.  Todd Glassey replied to a message approximately 3 months old
>> with some legal reasoning that at best seems highly contorted, and at
>> worst total nonsense.

I love technololgists who claim their view of Law is the right on. Are you
suggesting we should resolve this in a court of law Dave?

>
>
> All of which raises the deeper question of why serious people are
> consuming the ietf mailing list posting responses to it.

Or perhaps a better quesiton is what the actual loading it created since you
labeled it as "consuming" the list's available bandwidth.

>
> d/
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