On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 3:36 PM Solderpunk <solderpunk at posteo.net> wrote: But I have wondered > exactly what is involved and to what extent we sacrifice control. I > have a generally positive perception of the IETF, but I am also acutely > aware that the cultural/ideological perspective of Gemini folks is rare > and unusual in the wider world, and I don't know to what extent it would > be valued and preserved by a standards body that necessarily nowadays > must have quite strong ties to the exactly the kind of big, powerful > commercial entities that Gemini is trying to provide an escape from... > I'd say it has the fewest possible such ties, less than any other standards organization except the ISO (whose members are countries). While it's true that most IETF participants (= members) are there as part of their paid employment, the IETF makes it very clear that nobody speaks for anyone or anything except themselves. "The Tao of IETF" spells this out in great detail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20201227/998d 4eec/attachment.htm>
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