[158648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /. ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alissa Cooper)
Wed Dec 5 18:48:06 2012
From: Alissa Cooper <acooper@cdt.org>
In-Reply-To: <50BFD394.3080402@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 18:47:50 -0500
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 6:07 PM, Tom Taylor wrote:
> Agreed that the ITU-T is a membership organization, but the Questions =
and Study Group work programs are open to view (Q. 17/13 specifically =
covers DPI, and has more documents coming down the pipe). If you want to =
follow some Question you can probably get access through your government =
(State Dept. in the US, Dept. of Communications in Canada). The =
membership rules don't apply so stringently to Rapporteurs' meetings, so =
you can get in touch with the Rapporteur of a Question you are =
interested in and find out where to get copies of documents contributed =
into those meetings.
The above is not exactly what I would call an ideal process for ensuring =
that standards receive broad input from subject matter experts, =
regardless of where they're located or who they might know in their =
central governments.
In any event, the point of the original blog post was not to criticize =
closed membership organizations per se, it was to point out the =
shortcomings of making standards mandatory (as some proposed changes to =
the ITRs would do) when they are generated by such membership =
organizations.
Alissa
