On 11/28/11 12:58 , Jorge Contreras wrote:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, GTW <gtw(_at_)gtwassociates(_dot_)com
<mailto:gtw(_at_)gtwassociates(_dot_)com>> wrote:
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Ted, I like your approach of enquiring what problem we are striving
to solve and I like Russ's concise answer that it is "Recent suits
against other SDOs that is the source of the concern"
Russ, what are some of the "Recent suits against other SDOs" It
would be good to pin down the problem we are addressing
There is FTC and N-data matter from 2008
http://www.gtwassociates.com/alerts/Ndata1.htm
George -- one recent example is the pending antitrust suit by True
Position against ETSI, 3GPP and several of their members (who also
employ some IETF participants, I believe). Here is some relevant
language from the Complaint:
When or if that suit is concluded you may be able to divine whether the
antitrust policy of either SDO was of any value.
"100. By their failures to monitor and enforce the SSO Rules, and to
respond to TruePosition's specific complaints concerning violations of
the SSO Rules, 3GPP and ETSI have acquiesced in, are responsible for,
and complicit in, the abuse of authority and anticompetitive conduct by
Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Alcatel-Lucent. These failures have resulted in
the issuance of a Release 9 standard tainted by these unfair processes,
and for the delay until Release 11, at the earliest, of a 3GPP standard
for UTDOA positioning technology. By these failures, 3GPP and ETSI have
authorized and ratified the anticompetitive conduct of Ericsson,
Qualcomm, and Alcatel-Lucent and have joined in and become parties to
their combination and conspiracy."
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