On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 01:45:00PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > Incidentally, I consider most of those slides to be distortions, > presumably in support of a rather specific agenda or at least > the result of a very different perspective on appropriate global > networking technology. Well, the slides are certainly somewhat provocative (like good slides often are?). But I would guess that many of the observations are easily shown to be empirical facts. It is hardly any news as such that there are national and company interests embedded in the standardization processes. Besides, IETF has of course been a popular case among the scholars of standardization. See for instance, Gencer, M. (2012): The Evolution of IETF Standards and their Production. International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research 10(1). (Behind a paywall.) - Jukka.