Subject: Impossible suggestions

From: Brian E Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:02:37 +0100

Somebody wrote:

> The IETF is not an oversight/management org of
> Internet.
> That is the IABs charter. 

No it isn't. Please read the IAB Charter (RFC 2850).

> Policing corporations'
> standards implementations
> surely is beyond our scope (& $..ha!).
> IETF is to engineer/develop standard protocols.

Indeed, and that includes the IAB and the ISOC. We would be crazy
to attempt anything of the kind.

> 
> It seems quite appropriate that our IETF chairman
> denounce any product known (proven by any IESG member)
> to deviate from an IETF standard,

No, it seems totally inappropriate. It isn't our job or our
business to do such a thing, and the legal exposure is
unthinkable. 

   Brian