On 29 okt 2005, at 15.40, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
Amorality among scientists, engineers, and technologists has
gotten the
world into a lot of trouble. I prefer to think about the
consequences
of what I do.
I think we all do, and I think it's one of the reasons why I felt
Jefsey's accusations of provinciality and blinkeredness to be
deeply insulting as well as incoherent.
I am not sure what he did other then send 2 pointers to articles.
Don't quite understand how this might be insulting.
I do think there are two interesting questions:
- is the IETF community interested in discussions about the social
implications of the technology we develop
- is the IETF general list the right place for those discussions.
I for one am interested in the topic and think it is important for
any tehcnological group to take a view of its social responsibility.
But i am not sure that this list is the right place - though I don't
mind since I can skip threads that don't interest (or bother) me,
but experience shows that not everyone is able to do so. and to some
people the topic is irrelevant.
So perhaps an ISOC list, or a specific IETF social issues list would
be better. At least on such a list everyone would be participating
willingly.
a.
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