Re: Jabber BOF afterthoughts

[Pete Resnick <presnick at qualcomm.com>]

On 7/23/02 at 10:09 AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:

> we don't make ethernet standards, ieee does.  we don't make sdh 
> standards, itu does.  etc. etc.

Ah, you're talking about competing with other standards bodies, not 
groups within the IETF! OK, that I understand.

> in this case, i would be careful not to encroach on w3's toes.  i 
> have no idea if we would be or not.

Everything that I've seen indicates nothing in any of the potential 
work items which would step on any W3C toes. So I think Jabber is 
cool there too.

> as to why we are careful not to step on other sdos' toes, well we do 
> not want them to step on ours.  there have been incidents of this 
> kind of issue with other sdos, and we try to be careful.  make sense?

Absolutely.

pr
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