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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian E Carpenter
[mailto:brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 12:00 AM
To: Eliot Lear
Cc: John E Drake; iab(_at_)iab(_dot_)org; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: FW: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm
On 15/08/2012 07:24, Eliot Lear wrote:
John,
On 8/15/12 12:03 AM, John E Drake wrote:
Hi,
Does this document actually have a purpose, and if so, what is it?
To me (and I speak only for me here), the purpose of this document is
to articulate principles that have made the Internet a success. It
is
a means to invite others to subscribe to those same principles, and
there are many standards organizations that do not. Customers and
society can demand better, and this is an avenue for that.
I take it that John's question is really *why* do these principles need
to be articulated in public. Perhaps the IAB should answer that, but my
answer
is: because there is a real danger of some SDOs, including but not
limited to the ITU-T, breaking them for a variety of commercial or
political reasons.
JD: And how does this document prevent this abuse?
Brian