-----Original Message----- From: ipv6 <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tom Herbert
> And IETF exists for the good of the Internet and the world's population, not > so your company can make money! Ouch, Tom, let's not devolve the conversation here. "Making money," legally of course, is nothing more than proof the system works. The IETF exists because many companies around the world see a great benefit in having such a communications tool available to them. These companies pay some of their people to participate. IETF participants are not typically just independently wealthy free agents. Each of these guys fits in some category of participant (equipment vendor, network provider, application designers) and each has a responsibility to see that their interests are met, not ignored. If the communications tool introduces vulnerabilities that would potentially detract from their businesses, the IETF participants have the responsibility to bring that to light. We can’t expect some nebulous "greater good," however each of us defines that, to cause damage to users of the Internet. Besides which, ideas of what constitutes an actual "the greater good" are probably as varied as are the IETF participants. Bert _______________________________________________ OPSEC mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsec
