Comment inline Sent from my iPhone > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 12:00 AM > To: Eliot Lear > Cc: John E Drake; iab@xxxxxxx; ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: FW: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm > > On 15/08/2012 07:24, Eliot Lear wrote: > > John, > > > > On 8/15/12 12:03 AM, John E Drake wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does this document actually have a purpose, and if so, what is it? > >> > > > > To me (and I speak only for me here), the purpose of this document is > > to articulate principles that have made the Internet a success. It > is > > a means to invite others to subscribe to those same principles, and > > there are many standards organizations that do not. Customers and > > society can demand better, and this is an avenue for that. > > I take it that John's question is really *why* do these principles need > to be articulated in public. Perhaps the IAB should answer that, but my > answer > is: because there is a real danger of some SDOs, including but not > limited to the ITU-T, breaking them for a variety of commercial or > political reasons. JD: And how does this document prevent this abuse? > > Brian