pete(_at_)loshin(_dot_)com wrote:
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RFC 2418, "IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures", states:
Participation is by individual technical contributors, rather than by
formal representatives of organizations.
I take that to mean that IETF activities are separate from employment
activities.
Until a WG is formed with a charter that includes "talking to the
press", there's nothing about working in the IETF that imposes an
obligation to be pushed, poked, and prodded by the media.
Here's a litmus test. Try interviewing participants in public, on
a WG mailing list. If you get told the discussion is off topic,
then your interview isn't part of participation in the IETF.
cheers,
gja
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