It is traditional that most IETF meeting attendees have given the
organization they are affiliated with for identification purposes,
whether it is an educational institution, government, other non-profit
group or company.
Donald
PS: I don't see "being international" as a binary thing. Or at least
I don't know of any orgnaization, including the UN, that you can claim
is "perfectly" international. After all, there are plenty of
languages that are not official UN languages and there are always
distinctions based on whether you are privileged to have a permanent
seat on the Security Council or have the UN HQ in your country, etc.
The primary concern in the IETF is producing good protocols. I would
hope that anyone whose primary concern is how international the IETF
is would find more fertile ground in some other organization.
From: "Scott W Brim" <swb(_at_)NEWBRIDGE(_dot_)COM>
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:51:44 -0500
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Why does the IETF registration form ask for a company name?
From: Bill Manning <bmanning(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU>
Subject: Re: IETF Adelaide and interim meetings for APPS WGs
To: mart(_dot_)nurmet(_at_)inet(_dot_)com (Mart Nurmet)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:14:26 -0800 (PST)
Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[...]
and note that the IETF is composed of indivduals, not corporations.
You should not presume to "represent" a corporate entity within the
IETF. Your just the best engineer you can be.