[158626] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /. ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Dec 5 14:41:37 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <50BF9A15.3060406@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:39:50 -0800
To: Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 5, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> I'm seriously not clear why Y.2770 is characterized as "negotiated =
behind closed doors". Any drafts were available to all participants in =
the ITU-T, on exactly the same terms as drafts of other Recommendations. =
As an example, the draft coming out of the October, 2011 meeting can be =
seen at http://www.itu.int/md/T09-SG13-111010-TD-WP4-0201/en. (I have =
access delegated by a vendor to whom I have been consulting, by virtue =
of their membership in the ITU-T.)
Correct=85 All ITU Drafts and Recommendations are developed behind =
closed doors.
(If something is developed in a process which is not open to =
non-members, then, it is by definition developed behind closed doors. =
Why is this difficult to understand?)
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> I should mention that the "Next Generation Network" within the context =
of which this draft was developed is more likely to be implemented by =
old-line operators than by pure internet operations.
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You say that as if we're supposed to think it is a good thing. To many =
of us, it is one of the many reasons we're not so thrilled by ITUs =
sudden interest in exercising greater authority over internet =
operations.
Owen
