Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

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On Sep 18, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Ben Campbell wrote:

Could technical discussions about the following be considered political?
...
DRM

The various mobile groups, OMA in particular (as OMA DRM was once a key piece of their plan) have apparently not had any trouble discussing DRM in mainland venues. Nor, as far as I know, have they encountered any "oversight" on their discourse during the meetings. They do tend to be much smaller groups, and talk a lot less shop over dinner, and be more "standards professionals" and less "activist intellectual" than IETFers. At times past they did have trouble getting "real" Internet access, but I understand that has gotten better over the last few years.

But I do think IETFers would be much more likely to say something problematic, and that IETF would be a much bigger target for agents provocateurs than the mobile phone standards bodies have historically been. If I'm finding "pushing the envelope" to be tempting, I'm sure that there are other folks who will find it to be irresistible. After all, IETF (unlike 3GPP) is not a job. It's a lifestyle. We have a lot more financially independent people who are just there because they like it than 3GPP does, and they often spend their money on "causes" rather than just whiskey and sex like "real" standards professionals do (or at least pretend to do; really we're all saving up for a flat- screen TV, college for the kids, and a vacation in the tropics).

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Dean


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