Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

Richard Bennett <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:40:18 -0700



    This is what the press is saying:

    
    "The head of the Internet's leading standards body said Thursday
    that it is "misleading" for AT&T to claim that its push to
    charge customers for high-priority service is technically justified.
    
      
          "Internet Engineering Task Force chairman Russ Housley told
          CNET that AT&T's arguments to federal regulators, which
          cited networking standards to justify "paid prioritization" of
          network traffic, were invalid.
        
        
          ""AT&T in their letter (to the Federal Communications
          Commission) says the IETF envisioned this," Housley said.
          "That's not my view.""

        
        http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20015498-38.html

        
        It's quite clear that Russ' remarks have been taken to mean
          "the head of the IETF says payment for premium service was
          never envisioned by the IETF" regardless of what he may or may
          not have said.

        
        RB

        
        Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20015498-38.html#ixzz0yV7O8Ofv
    
    
    On 9/3/2010 1:34 PM, Matthew Ford wrote:
    
      On 3 Sep 2010, at 21:13, Richard Bennett wrote:


        As Russ is now invoking your message to support his view that payment for premium service is contrary to the wishes of IETF, that's a problem.


      No, it really isn't. That's not what Russ said.

Mat
    
    
    -- 
Richard Bennett
Senior Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC
  

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