[I was on disconnected holidays during the "Last Call", sorry.]
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:05:30AM -0400,
IETF Chair <chair@xxxxxxxx> wrote
a message of 119 lines which said:
> The leaders of the IEEE Standards Association, the IAB, the IETF,
> the Internet Society, and the W3C signed a statement affirming the
> importance of a jointly developed set of principles establishing a
> modern paradigm for global, open standards. Below is a press
> release about this event.
> Leading Global Standards Organizations Endorse 'OpenStand'
> Principles that Drive Innovation and Borderless Commerce
I strongly regret that "Commerce" has a specific mention, among all
the other uses of the Internet. The network is not only open for
business!
> IEEE, IAB, IETF, Internet Society and W3C Invite Other Standards
> Organizations, Governments and Companies
...
> * availability of standards to all;
Unfortunately, the actual text is very short on this matter
("Standards specifications are made accessible to all for
implementation and deployment") and does not mention gratis access and
redistribution, one of the big reasons of the success of the TCP/IP
family (RFC 5218, section 2.1.5). Was it because the IEEE would not
sign otherwise
<http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/index.html>?