Ironically, it was concern about anti-trust suits which led to the creation
of the ISOC, and the re-homing of the IETF under the ISOC, in the first place
(back in the fall of 1989).
Not only that. The current IETF rules were specifically designed with antitrust
considerations in mind. The example at the time was not wireless positioning
technologies, but a similar case involving boiler furnaces. The allegation was
that a furnace maker somehow manipulated the standard process to exclude a
competitor as non-compliant. A superficial reading of the two cases shows many
similarities.
-- Christian Huitema
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