Re: IETF Adelaide and interim meetings for APPS WGs

["Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3 at torque.pothole.com>]

It is traditional that most IETF meeting attendees have given the
organization they are affiliated with for identification purposes,
whether it is an educational institution, government, other non-profit
group or company.

Donald

PS: I don't see "being international" as a binary thing.  Or at least
I don't know of any orgnaization, including the UN, that you can claim
is "perfectly" international.  After all, there are plenty of
languages that are not official UN languages and there are always
distinctions based on whether you are privileged to have a permanent
seat on the Security Council or have the UN HQ in your country, etc.

The primary concern in the IETF is producing good protocols.  I would
hope that anyone whose primary concern is how international the IETF
is would find more fertile ground in some other organization.

From:  "Scott W Brim" <swb at NEWBRIDGE.COM>
Message-Id:  <4.2.2.20000215165106.00aae4f0 at kanmail01.ca.newbridge.com>
Date:  Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:51:44 -0500
To:  ietf at ietf.org
In-Reply-To:  <200002152122.PAA87218 at us.networkcs.com>
References:  <200002151914.LAA20085 at zed.isi.edu>

>Why does the IETF registration form ask for a company name?
>
>> > From: Bill Manning <bmanning at ISI.EDU>
>> > Subject: Re: IETF Adelaide and interim meetings for APPS WGs
>> > To: mart.nurmet at inet.com (Mart Nurmet)
>> > Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:14:26 -0800 (PST)
>> > Cc: ietf at ietf.org
>> >       [...]
>> > and note that the IETF is composed of indivduals, not corporations.
>> > You should not presume to "represent" a corporate entity within the
>> > IETF. Your just the best engineer you can be.
>