Re: An Antitrust Policy for the IETF

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On 11/28/11 12:58 , Jorge Contreras wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, GTW <gtw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:gtw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     __
>     Ted, I like your approach of enquiring what problem we are striving
>     to solve and I like Russ's concise answer that it is "Recent suits
>     against other SDOs that  is the source of the concern" 
>      
>     Russ, what are  some of the  "Recent suits against other SDOs"  It
>     would be good to pin down the problem we are addressing
>      
>     There is  FTC and N-data matter from 2008
>     http://www.gtwassociates.com/alerts/Ndata1.htm
> 
> 
> George -- one recent example is the pending antitrust suit by True
> Position against ETSI, 3GPP and several of their members (who also
> employ some IETF participants, I believe).  Here is some relevant
> language from the Complaint:

When or if that suit is concluded you may be able to divine whether the
antitrust policy of either SDO was of any value.

> "100.   By their failures to monitor and enforce the SSO Rules, and to
> respond to TruePosition's  specific complaints concerning violations of
> the SSO Rules, 3GPP and ETSI have acquiesced in, are responsible for,
> and complicit in, the abuse of authority and anticompetitive conduct by
> Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Alcatel-Lucent.  These failures have resulted in
> the issuance of a Release 9 standard tainted by these unfair processes,
> and for the delay until Release 11, at the earliest, of a 3GPP standard
> for UTDOA positioning technology.  By these failures, 3GPP and ETSI have
> authorized and ratified the anticompetitive conduct of Ericsson,
> Qualcomm, and Alcatel-Lucent and have joined in and become parties to
> their combination and conspiracy."
> 
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