Subject: IETF: Political Action Working Group?

From: Bob Allisat <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:39:36 -0500 (EST)

Fred Baker, head of IETF <[email-masked]> once wrote:
+ I'm sure the working groups have been occupied with the work their
+ charters call them to. We don't have any working groups on the politics
+ of the Internet, only its technology.

Karl Auerbach reports:
> But in those cases where the work was not performed by a working 
> group, such as August endorsement of IANA draft #4 for ICANN at 
> the Chicago IETF meeting, one can only shake one's head in 
> wonderment about what went into that decision, or even how such a 
> complex decision could have been reached in so few hours of study 
> of such a complex document in a highly complex and technical area 
> that few, if any, IAB or IESG members have any particular 
> training.

 Fred Baker explicitly stated
 no working group exists in the
 IETF on Political issues. And
 yet Karl reports that the IETF
 in Chicago decided to support
 the 4th draft of ICANN bylaws.
 I am experiencing congitive
 dissonance. While there may be
 no formal political IETF working
 group the IETF name is being
 attached in an informal, ad hoq
 manner to political decisions?

 There is no functional differance
 in my opinion to a gathering in 
 Chicago and a working group.Such
 a body is an executive working
 group... perhaps the variety most
 suscpeptable to abuse. But a working
 group non-the-less. Someone pinch
 Fred and tell him he's a fibber.

 Bob Allisat

 Free Community Network _ [email-masked] . http://fcn.net
 http://fcn.net/allisat _ http://fcn.net/draft

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