At 3:34 PM -0800 12/14/00, John W Noerenberg II wrote:
We are here not as corporate representatives, but as individuals
committed to building the best Internet we can. Becoming part of a
working group means you leave your company badge at the door. As
the Internet has become more and more a commercial place, and the
setting for business and commerce, the pressure to bend the way the
Internet works to one's particular advantage at the expense of
others increases.
This is not part of our heritage. It is not part of our Tao. We
come together because the Internet belongs to no one country, or
organization. Rather it exists for all. We can look forward to a
Net which not only spans the Earth, but gives every person in every
country, the opportunity and the means to learn from any other
regardless of their home, their beliefs or their physical
capabilities.
It is a wonderful thing. And we must remember it is our
responsibility to preserve and enhance it for those who will come
after.
So let's change the way we're identified on the badges to
NOT include organizational identity. And NOT include the
organizational affiliation(s) on the published attendees list.
As an adjunct to the above suggestion, how about ISOC offering
to provide e-mail forwarding (ala IEEE) for IETF participants
after some number of consecutive meetings attended...