> Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > And what if that something is get the French government to > contribute to a rival to IETF? Or combine with the governments > of Brazil and Mexico to create a larger anti-IETF? Let them try it. It will fizzle when they lose the little traction they have now in the fallback of the Snowden leaks. In 2016 when Brazil (you picked it, not me) hosts the Olympic Games, they lose $100 million of per click advertizing because they have moved their stuff behind an alternate root or whatever pipe dream and nobody can access it? Have them eat their own dog food. History repeats itself; each time there is evidence of mismanagement from foreign powers, secessionist feelings flare and some smart @55 will exploit that to their own advantage. > The key is IPv6. Then you have a problem, because France is the only country that has remotely tried to deploy it. Phillip, with all due respect for your very valuable past and present contributions, you're a dreamer. The reason you worry about the idea of the French government combining with Brazil and Mexico is as invalid as you think that IPv6 can be deployed. You believe in the dream, the market believes in money. Get IPv6 deployed in the real world and then I will pay attention to the French threat to take over the IETF and the Internet. Otherwise it will get in the same state of "non-deployment" that is not to be worried about. > Christian de Larrinaga wrote: > Bakailao argi dago hizkuntza unibertsala! RFCs > arrantza espedizioak dira. Ez dago? I knew some Basque would step in! Thanks for playing, Christian ;-) Let's make a deal about the official IETF language: Mondays: Basque Tuesdays: Catalan Wednesdays: French Thursdays: Norwegian Fridays: Spanish Saturdays: Esperanto Sundays: English Deal ? > Roger Jørgensen wrote: > What I personal is very sure of is that it will not changed to > Norwegian (where I'm from), or any other European language. +1 That being said, and back to the point I have painfully trying to make, I have not felt the resistance to English from people in your native country nearly as much as I have felt it in my native France. > Take a wild guess what language that might get some > of that in near future (10-20years). China. Your logic is flawless, for a wild guess. It would be my #1 pick as well; size does matter. That being said, many people in the US feared that it would happen with India in the software development market years ago, and it did not happen. As Jorge put it very nicely, US-based corporations have managed to assimilate Indian talent, and it is no mystery that they are trying to assimilate Chinese talent. Define assimilate? We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. Michel.