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From: "Vernon Schryver" <vjs(_at_)calcite(_dot_)rhyolite(_dot_)com>
In other words and politically correct pretense asside, the IETF is not
an international organization. Despite its posturing, the IETF is a U.S.
or perhaps North American organization that welcomes non-U.S. participants
and occasionally spends a lot of its U.S. participants' time and money to
try to make people outside of North America feel welcome. If the IETF
did honestly aspire to be an international organization, it would need
the characteristics of the ITU (e.g. translators and high prices for
documents). Do you think that would be a good thing?
Now if this were to be the case, we should definitely set up an
European Internet Engineering Task Force and so on.
In such a scenario, maybe different parts of the world would even
choose different working languages.
This would definitely be a win towards reducing US centricness.
But would it be a win to the Internet ?
-hph