On 12.02.2009, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > 3) Write only campaigns decrease sympathy for the position being promoted. As someone who mainly acts in read-only mode on this list: regardless of what one thinks about free software, I think what troubles me most in the recent campaign is that it has already been partially successful. This essentially political campaign has already disturbed the list. It has already provoked a vivid discussion. As has been pointed out, if campaigns like this are considered as qualified input to IETF, also input from other political pressure groups or professional lobby groups must be considered equally legitimate. This may show bad taste, but does ISO's OOXML ring a bell? - Jukka Ruohonen. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf