On Tue, 14 May 2013, Dale R. Worley wrote:
The critical difference is that the IETF is an organization of *buyers* rather than an organization of *sellers*.
Not that I have been active in the IETF that long (only a few years), but IETF is pretty vendor-heavy.
Otoh hand the whole point with IETF is that *nobody* is *excluded*, it consists of all interested parties and the barrier of entry is really low.
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