Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your comments on ...

[Dave CROCKER <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>      Wha the work-around appears to me to provide is a way for
> contributors to say, "But maybe I don't have them all."  From my point
> of view, that's less good than releasing the contributor from needing
> to make such claims in the first place, but it's an improvement.
...
> What's unusual in this case is that every contributor,
> by virtue of having to assert that he or she has obtained the relevant
> permssions, is _also_ subject to those lawsuits.


+1.

This nicely highlights the underlying problem with the approach has so far been 
taken:  It expects far too much from people who are, in actual fact, acting as 
agents of the IETF.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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