"...IETF is an organization controlled by the US?" ???

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming@ameritech.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loa Andersson" <loa.andersson@utfors.se>
> >   | Are 2 people from a single
> >   | European country a problem? Are 6 from the US?
> > 
> > No, because it is the perception of who can control what that matters.
> > 
> 
> Do you seriously think that there is no perception, at least outside the
> US, that IETF is an organization controlled by the US?
> 

I think that the "US" people and government view the IETF as irrelevant.
Standards are set in the U.S.A via *market forces*. It is one of the only countries
in the world where that is the case. Most other countries turn to the ITU, IEEE, etc.
to tell them what to do. In many cases, one person in a country tells the leaders that
the ITU said so-and-so and that is all it takes to make-it-so in that country. The
IETF may be able to prey on third-world countries the way the ITU does, but
Americans will not be fooled. U.S. leaders are clearing the path for free markets to
work. If they do not, then we may as well all regress to communist/socialist states
as promoted by the I* society.

Whitehouse Ready to Release Next Generation Internet Plan
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-958159.html?tag=politech
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03994.html
http://www.uscryptomail.org/cybersecurity/

Note: The new plan calls for the same architecture used with IPv8 and IPv16,
whereby, users do not have direct access to the (out-of-band) IPv16 network.


Jim Fleming
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