Well, this is a cultural thing :-) Some of our American colleagues cannot avoid using examples related to the American constitution, history or academy, forgetting that out-of-the-US interlocutors may not that familiar with them. Luckily, they did not mention any baseball rule in this discussions (yet) :-)
Regards, Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > SM > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:08 PM > To: Aaron Yi DING > Cc: ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Is the IETF is an international organization? (was: IETF > Diversity) > > Hi Aaron, > At 11:40 19-06-2013, Aaron Yi DING wrote: > >Relating to the statement above(I assume Phillip is addressing the US > >Academia), not quite sure are we still discussing the same topic? > >sorry, I am bit confused .. since IETF is an international > organization. > > I changed the subject line as I am as confused as to whether the IETF is > an international organization. > > There was a mention of "First the Civil Rights act, then Selma... ;)". > I assume that the act is an Act for the United States of America. > Harvard was also mentioned. I did a quick search and I found out that > "Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research > university". > > Regards, > -sm
