On Jul 8, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Fred Baker wrote: > Walking into an ITU meeting, I have to show a passport and have a permanent photographic record taken. If I want to participate in RIPE's general meeting, I have to register, and I can expect to find myself in RIPE's attendee list. That is true in a wide variety of places. I think there's actually a slightly different question in there. Those are not open organizations. The IETF is. I think that there might be a question about what "open participation" means and whether or not there's an expectation that participants will identify themselves, and if so, what the expectations are around the identity being presented. Melinda _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf