Hi - >From: manning bill <bmanning@xxxxxxx> >Sent: Apr 25, 2014 12:59 PM >To: lrosen@xxxxxxxxxxxx >Cc: IETF <ietf@xxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: Author disclosures and conflict of interest ... >Since participation in the IETF is from a global perspective, >this begs the question of the existence of ethical >rules for engineers & scientists in other jurisdictions, >and where they do exist, are they in harmony with US >standards? Perhaps it would make sense to start with two global professional organizations in the field, such as http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics or http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html I'd think that a fair number of IETF participants might belong to one or both of these professional societies. Randy