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<14534(_dot_)1076433147(_at_)marajade(_dot_)sandelman(_dot_)ottawa(_dot_)on(_dot_)ca>,
Michael Richards
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"Paul" == Paul Robinson <paul(_at_)iconoplex(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> writes:
Paul> The call for papers for the relatively famous Free Software Forum
Paul> is up:
Paul> http://papers.softwarelivre.org/index.en.html
Paul> I was wondering if anybody from the IETF was planning to give a
Paul> talk? If not, I was going to propose a couple of sessions myself
Paul> (in a non-official, participatory way of course - I don't propose
Paul> speaking FOR the IETF so to speak):
It would be good if someone reviewed how the IETF worked at the conference.
A lot of software developers would benefit from understanding more.
I gave a talk like that at Usenix a few years ago -- feel free to point
folks at the talks/ietf-usenix/ietf-usenix.htm file on my Web page.
Note, of course, that many -- most? -- free software advocates do not
like the IETF's policies on patents in its protocols. But that's a
separate can of worms; let's *not* debate that again now...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb