On 1/7/14, Dave Crocker <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We choose to listen to our > "customers" -- that is, those who buy and use what we produce -- rather > than third-party actors who might favor ensuring that pervasive > monitoring be made easy. Who are the IETF customers? can be: a majority of diverse individual users of the Internet, a minority of large organisations, and a majority of small/medium organisations (all have different purposes, not ignoring possible attackers). > > That choice can be classed as political, but really, we're just > listening to our market... What is/are the IETF market(s), or should IETF be getting fees from its markets? Each world region has its own answers. Political decisions is not the problem, it happens as output of any organisation, the problem is that IETF is not diversified enough !!! AB