On 9 Dec 2003, Franck Martin wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 15:15, Randy Presuhn wrote:
Hi -
How would replacing ICANN (or the IETF) with the ITU
make things any less unilateral? As I see it, all that it would
accomplish is that it would give governments and corporations
a more direct voice in matters, at the expense of individual
technical contributors.
Randy
And one important fact, is that IETF issues standards which do not
contain patents... but ITU does!
<LPF President hat>
Sadly, this isn't true. The IETF is to take no position on software
patents, but some RFCs cover patented technology. This is supposed to be
disclosed by the RFC authors.
--Dean