Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

The article goes on to say:

"We didn't foresee AT&T throwing our name into this discussion," the IETF's Housley said. He added: "This characterization of the IETF standard and the use of the term 'paid prioritization' by AT&T is misleading."

This certainly sounds like it's meant to convey the IETF view; why say "our name" if you're not speaking for the group?

It seems to me that if Russ was misquoted, IETF needs to put out a press release clarifying the organization's position. If he was quoted correctly, there's a much larger problem.

RB

On 9/3/2010 1:40 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:

This is what the press is saying:

"The head of the Internet's leading standards body said Thursday that it is "misleading" for AT&T to claim that its push to charge customers for high-priority service is technically justified.

"Internet Engineering Task Force chairman Russ Housley told CNET that AT&T's arguments to federal regulators, which cited networking standards to justify "paid prioritization" of network traffic, were invalid.

""AT&T in their letter (to the Federal Communications Commission) says the IETF envisioned this," Housley said. "That's not my view.""

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20015498-38.html

It's quite clear that Russ' remarks have been taken to mean "the head of the IETF says payment for premium service was never envisioned by the IETF" regardless of what he may or may not have said.

RB

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20015498-38.html#ixzz0yV7O8Ofv

On 9/3/2010 1:34 PM, Matthew Ford wrote:

On 3 Sep 2010, at 21:13, Richard Bennett wrote:

As Russ is now invoking your message to support his view that payment for premium service is contrary to the wishes of IETF, that's a problem.

No, it really isn't. That's not what Russ said.

Mat

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