Hi Andrew,
At 11:00 PM 17-08-2019, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
I'm writing in my role as the Internet Society's CEO.
Ok.
Your interpretation appears to elide the qualifying "Apart from the
roles?" part of the sentence in asserting implausibility. I'm unsure
what problem you see in the last ¶ of section 4, which explicitly
notes that ISOC employees participate in the process as individuals.
The Internet Society also has a staff policy about this, some remarks
about which I posted a while ago [1].
My reading of RFC 2031 is that it describes a
main boundary condition without getting in the
internal policies of ISOC. One of the changes in
this draft is that it includes some parts of an
internal policy related to employees of an
organization which the IETF is expected to
disregard. Why is it so important for the last
paragraph of Section 4 to be included?
Commenting about implausibility, there is the
following in the message which was referenced:
"The overall idea is to try to draw a bright line between being
employed at the Internet Society, and being part
of the formal machinery of the IETF". In my
opinion, the last paragraph of Section 4 also blurs that bright line.
I don't understand this question in the context. But I should think
it obvious that, in the unlikely event the Internet Society started
taking out patents on software inventions we suddenly started making,
Internet Society staff would be obliged to disclose such things in
exactly the same way everyone else around the IETF does. Since
formally none of the participants in the IETF is acting as a
representative of anyone else (including their employers), ISOC
employees are no different. The purpose of the bit in section 3 in
the draft under discussion is to make that point explicitly.
In my opinion, it is better to have some clarity
now instead of ignoring the difficult questions
and facing them if there is ever an issue in future.
Is _what_ so aligned? I'm also unsure of the relevance of the
services agreement to which you refer, since it has nothing to do with
the technical content of Internet standards.
Are ethical standards contextual?
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
