[9401] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Aikens last (but long) posting/comments on ISOC and related issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Bradner)
Tue Jan 4 11:49:04 1994
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 11:48:04 -0500
From: sob@hsdndev.harvard.edu (Scott Bradner)
To: AIKEN@ccc.nersc.gov, braden@isi.edu, com-priv@psi.com,
Cc: amr@cnri.reston.va.us, hain@es.net, isoc-trustees@cnri.reston.va.us,
Since I am the IETF Area Director that offered to support a BOF on
operational issues during the next IETF meeting, I guess I should enter
into this discussion at least a little bit. (I'm also an ISOC trustee
and have a number of problems with the way that some of the discussion
has been cast but I'll put that off for another time.)
I offered to sponsor a BOF because there was a lot of discussion on the
*ietf* list about forming an IOTF-like orgination. Since IETF people
were talking about this it seemed like a reasonable thing to offer
a forum for discussion. As I said in the mesage making this offer, I
was (and am) not saying that the IETF is the proper place to base
such a group. I am saying that this is a topic of clear interest and
that, since a whole bunch of people who have shown this interest will
be at the IETF meeting it might be nice to have a place to talk in addition
to the endless hallways.
Please don't read anything more than that into the offer. This is a
chance to talk - the talk will lead where ever the talk will lead and
I will not predict where that will be.
The OPS area in the IETF does have a number of working groups that function
as forums for the exchange of operational information, they do not attempt
to run the Internet. These groups also serve to focus discussion of the
impact of proposed standards on the operation of networks and thus provide
an important feedback path to the working groups in other areas where the
standards are being developed.
Scott
