Re: A sort of council of elders for the internet

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On Nov 8, 2013, at 3:03 PM, SM <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From the Economist [1]:
> 
>  "On November 6th a meeting in Vancouver of the Internet Engineering
>   Task Force (IETF), an organisation which brings together the
>   scientists, technicians and programmers who built the internet in
>   the first place and whose behind-the-scenes efforts keep it running,
>   debated what to do about all this. A strong streak of West Coast
>   libertarianism still runs through the IETF, and the tone was mostly
>   hostile to the idea of omnipresent surveillance. Some of its members
>   were involved in creating the parts of the internet that spooks are
>   now exploiting. "I think we should treat this as an attack," said
>   Stephen Farrell, a computer scientist from Trinity College, Dublin,
>   in his presentation to the delegates. Discussion then moved on to
>   what should be done to thwart it.
> 
>   As a sort of council of elders for the internet, the IETF has plenty
>   of soft power. But it has no formal authority. Because its standards
>   must be acceptable to users and engineers all over the world, it works
>   through a slow process of consensus-building. New standards, guidelines
>   and advice take months or years to produce."
> 
> There is a sort of council of elders of the internet around here. :-)

And we are apparently delegates.

Yoav







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