On 2/24/15 12:29 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: > This text, in an email from the IETF Secretariat, is immediately > followed to a cisco.com URL. So a disinterested reader would > naturally assume that the event is an IETF event, and that Cisco is > somehow involved in organizing it, or maybe is sponsoring it (e.g., > paying for the room or something). I do not actually know the truth > of the matter, but the meeting info is very clear about what the > hackathon is about. So while I guess I can understand that you > might be confused about who is sponsoring it, I am still at a loss as > to why that's a problem. I don't love it - it increases the difficulty of arguing that yes, the IETF really is a vendor-independent organization just a wee bit more - but I wonder if Cisco would not choose to sponsor something like that if they couldn't slap their branding on it. Why was the announcement on Cisco's site, anyway? Is this a Cisco event or an IETF event? Melinda