Re: I'm not the microphone police, but ...

[Aki Niemi <aki.niemi at nokia.com>]

My 2 cents:

I firmly believe in the "individual" and "voluntary" aspects of IETF
attendance. I also belong to both categories; sure my employer pays for
the expenses, but nobody forced me to come over. (Come on it's Paris
after all, although I have gone to all of the Minneapolis meetings, too. ;)

I represent many things here -- first and foremost I'm an engineer and
an end user. Naturally, my interests may be affected by what I do in my
"real work". I think that applies to most people here, and I think it
would be naive to think otherwise.

And whether or not people mention their affiliate at the mic is a
much smaller issue IMO to whether they use their company email
account. That is a much more visible and relevant label in IETF work
that mostly happens on mailing lists anyway.

Cheers,
Aki

ext Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> That would be fine, if I changed the Newcomer's Orientation :-)
>
> Spencer
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> > Spencer,
> >
> > However, many people here are not using their 'individual money' to
> >  get here in Paris. Our name badges list our employers (in most 
> > cases).  I think its a different issue if I come to the mic and 
> > say, 'We at the ACME company would like to state, for the record, 
> > that we support the foo bar proposal and hope it becomes an 
> > official RFC as soon as possible.  It doesn't bug me one-way or 
> > another if folks state their name & who pays the bills.
>
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