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At 19:06 11-08-2012, Glen Zorn wrote: >any one other than themselves. If support by IETF members at-large >is to be signified, then an online petition of some sort would be a >much better idea & much less deceptive. RFCs, for example RFC 1984, have been used for such statements.
Sorry, I don't get your point. The referenced RFC says
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering
Steering Group (IESG), the bodies which oversee architecture and
standards for the Internet, are concerned by the need for increased
protection of international commercial transactions on the Internet,
and by the need to offer all Internet users an adequate degree of
privacy.
Presumably, the IAB & IESG came to this concern through consensus and the document expresses the consensus (along with the rather typical sense of exaggerated self-importance
)of those bodies. It pointedly does not claim to represent the opinion of the entire IETF, but neither does the document under discussion (unless the royal usage of "we" is intended) and that's how it should be.
Regards, -sm