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From: speermint-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:speermint-
bounces at ietf.org] On
Behalf Of Livingood, Jason
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:36 PM
To: speermint at ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Speermint] WG chairs affiliation disclosure
See note below, which went to the WG chairs mailing list. The note
requests
all WG chairs disclose their affiliation.
For speermint, our charter is @
http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/speermint-charter.html
As you can see on the charter, from my email address, I work for
Comcast.
My co-chair, Daryl Malas, works for CableLabs. Comcast is a cable
company
and is a member of CableLabs (which includes providing financial
support for
CableLabs via a membership fee). When Daryl joined as co-chair he
worked
for another company, other than CableLabs.
In terms of my own employment, I view myself in my co-chair role as
providing a service to the general Internet community, as opposed to
simple
representation of the views of my employer, which I believe is the
case
for
the most contributors here at the IETF. I am sure that Daryl feels
the
same
way.
I hope that this meets the letter and spirit of the request to have
all
WG
chairs in all groups disclose their affiliations. Should anyone have
any
questions or concerns relating to this disclosure or our
affiliations,
please do not hesitate to contact Daryl or I directly or reply to the
list.
Regards
Jason
On 9/3/09 9:54 AM, "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca at avaya.com> wrote:
The issue below was discussed by the IESG in the last telechat as a
management item.
Some WGs have more than one co-chair. It is considered a good
practice
that co-chairs of the same WG are not affiliated or their
particpation
is not sponsored by the same company. However this is not a
mandatory
requirement and situations may happen where individuals change
affiliation or sponsorship. It is recommended that such cases are
made
known to the community and especially to the other WG participants.
For
this purpose ADs will recommend the chairs of the WGs to disclose
their
affiliation or participation sponsorship at nomination and in cases
of
changes of affiliation or sponsorship - especially when these are
not
obvious from their email addresses - by sending a message to the WG
mail
list.
Dan
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