On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 04:01:37PM -0400, Dean Anderson allegedly wrote:
The IPR policy (controversial as it might be), has nothing to do with who
can post to an IETF list. There is no reasonable basis to limit posts
because a person is involved in other groups. It has nothing to do with
any so-called 'emphasis on design teams and directorates', which seems to
be little more than a codeword for suppression of certain viewpoints.
Go back and look at Phillip's original message. The complaint about
democracy was not about posting rights. Enclosed:
I disagree with any requirement imposed by a working group chair who
believes he is not accountable to the group. I do not think that the
way an IPR regime should be specified is a unilateral statement from
the chair that a decision has been taken.
An IPR policy should not be something that members of a group
discover when they are told it has been imposed from above.
What happened to open and inclusive?