According to the IETF web site, http://www.ietf.org "The IETF is an organized activity of the Internet Society"
Is the Internet Society a U.S. company or based in Switzerland ? Jim Fleming http://www.in-addr.info 3:219 INFO http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:47 AM Subject: Re: The IETF has no members ? > removing the spam list... > > At 03:38 AM 10/17/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Any contributor to > >the IETF is effectively a member of it. > > In any practical sense, you're probably correct, but as I understand it > (IANAL), not in a legal sense. The sense that an organization has > "members", which is the context raised, that has to be defined somewhere, > and we have no such formal definition. >
