You are a staff member of ITIF according to their web site. I presume
you are paid.
ITIF is paid to present a certain point of view in the FCC rule making process.
Therefore you have an interest that you really should have disclosed
before making all these rather unpleasant statements on and off the
list.
Participants in the IETF are not always speaking for their employer.
But that does not mean that we can claim to be a disinterested party.
To make an affirmative claim of being disinterested in those
circumstances is contemptible.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Richard Bennett
<richard(_at_)bennett(_dot_)com> wrote:
That's the point I've been trying to make. If you read the AT&T letter in
context, as a response to the Free Press letter that was completely bizarre,
you'll conclude that the AT&T letter was fundamentally accurate. So the
decision by the ISOC press relations people and the ISOC policy people to
use Russ as a propaganda weapon against the corrective remarks from AT&T was
simply twisted.
If ISOC is going to trot Russ out to the press every time somebody files a
comment with the FCC they don't like, he's going to be pretty busy. If he's
only going to be used against the most egregious uses of IETF's name, he
should have been used against the Free Press letter that started this whole
fiasco. By attacking AT&T and giving Free Press a pass, ISOC chose to take
sides. I think it's wrong for IETF to do that, regardless of what the shiny
little poli sci majors who do policy for ISOC may think.
Read the Free Press letter here:
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7020652588
And contrary to the claims of some people, I'm not being paid by anyone to
engage in this discussion, it's something I've chosen to do as a member of
the IETF community who thinks the actions taken by ISOC in this matter are
harmful to the Internet.
RB
On 9/8/2010 11:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote:
On the one hand, what people seem to be missing is at&t's PR was in
response to an even more over-the-top filling by Free Press. On the other
hand, that alone does not justify twisting what the IETF work product is. On
the third hand, if one actually reads the at&t blog, at least 65% of it is
(shudder) sensible.
No one has clean hands here.
--
Eric, who claims "employment" at Georgetown, which means this message
absolutely, positively, does not reflect the views, opinions, comments, or
thoughts of Georgetown University. Or at&t. Or Free Press. Or ITIF. Or Peter
Pan.
And if you missed it, in this message, I am neither representing ISOC,
IAOC, ACM, IEEE, nor IEEE-USA.
Just silly me.
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