> Ironically, it was concern about anti-trust suits which led to the creation > of the ISOC, and the re-homing of the IETF under the ISOC, in the first place > (back in the fall of 1989).
Not only that. The current IETF rules were specifically designed with antitrust considerations in mind. The example at the time was not wireless positioning technologies, but a similar case involving boiler furnaces. The allegation was that a furnace maker somehow manipulated the standard process to exclude a competitor as non-compliant. A superficial reading of the two cases shows many similarities. -- Christian Huitema _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
