On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 13:28 -0700, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: > > > > Do you think that corporate domination of "open" standards development is > > OK? > > > > The barrier for participation is low since there are no membership fees, etc.
For participation, yes, all that is needed is an email account; if one wishes to attend meetings (just the main ones - let's ignore interims), the bar rises considerably. The chances of dominating a WG or attaining a leadership position in the IETF are very close to zero without meeting attendance. I spend about 10% of my gross income on travel, meeting fees, etc. for IETF meetings; I don't consider that to be trivial. > Nevertheless, those who participate in standardization efforts have to spend > their time. And somebody's money: I spend about 10% of my gross income on travel, meeting fees, etc. for IETF meetings; I don't consider that to be trivial. > So, typically those who participate for a longer period of time need to have > some incentives. These incentives often come from working for a specific > company. > > We cannot force anyone to participate in any of our working groups. In the > OAuth case we have lots of other people participating but they typically ask > questions and provide implementation feedback rather than trying to steer the > standardization work. > > Ciao > Hannes > > PS: Eran was also working for a big corporation, namely Yahoo. I could > imagine that Yahoo also had some incentives to pay Eran for his participation > in this work.
