RE: FW: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm

[John E Drake <jdrake@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 

 

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From: Eliot Lear [mailto:lear@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:25 PM
To: John E Drake
Cc: iab@xxxxxxx; ietf@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FW: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm

 

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.

 

JD:  This seems a bit presumptuous to me.

 

It is a means to invite others to subscribe to those same principles, and there are many standards organizations that do not.

 

JD:  I would be willing to bet that nearly every SDO would claim they embrace these same principles.

 

Customers and society can demand better, and this is an avenue for that.

 

JD:  How, exactly?

Eliot