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

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>]

In message <42F48A4B.1020402 at cs.utk.edu>, Keith Moore writes:
>I actually think IETF might function better if nobody's badge had his 
>company's name on it, and nobody used a company email address.  People 
>place way too much importance on someone's employer.  Yes, sometimes 
>people break the rules and speak for their employers, but it's not wise 
>to assume that this is the case.

More than once, I've seen ostensibly technical discussions where 
various people were quite obviously representing the interests of their 
employers.  I'd rather the potential for conflict were obvious.

Put another way, quite people *do* speak for their employers, who don't 
buy into the IETF's vision of the process.  We can't stop it; we as a 
community are better off when connections are clear.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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