On 02/12/2017 13:06, Randy Bush wrote: >> The panelists you have arranged said multiple times on "don't >> politicize internet". What does it mean? > > in the early days, we, the engineers and scientists, were our own > customer. in the '90s and onward, the funny monkeys called 'humans' > discovered it and adopted it to their use. it is now critical to > their culture, such as it is. anything involved in their culture is > political, the more involved the more political. Yes. I remember in 1995 being on a panel about the Internet where someone asked if any laws applied to the Internet. My reply was "If it's illegal on the street, why wouldn't it be illegal on the Internet?" As for law, so for politics. (On the same panel, we were asked "Why are there no women up on the stage with you?" We didn't have a good answer.) I suspect the point intended in plenary was more about keeping politics out of protocol design. That's impossible, but IMHO minimising political impact is a goal. Brian Brian