Graham Klyne wrote:
But I am still uncomfortable with it. It implies that, somehow, any non-US
participant is somehow a second class citizen, who is permitted to attend
purely as a concession by the US elite whose organization this is. Maybe
that also is true -- but I don't have to like it. I very much prefer the
"pretense"
In other words, the pretense is self-fulfilling: by claiming (and striving) to
be global, the IETF avoids driving away non-US participants, which makes the
IETF more truly global.
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