On 12/19/18 6:57 PM, Andrew Newton wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 12:26 PM Niels ten Oever
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I am not quite sure I understand, are you saying an Internet standard is not
>> a norm?
>
> No, it's a technical specification.
>
Open technical standards are de facto norms. That something is a technical
specification does not mean it is not a norm and vice versa.
> From an ethical point of view, I am not opposed to privacy or human
> rights considerations in IETF documents. But practically speaking, if
> discussions are to break down into meta-conversations on the
> philosophical differences between what is or is not a specification or
> what is or is not policy, I conclude that such efforts are futile and
> a waste of time.
I think the discussion is very concrete, with a concrete text proposal.
I agree that discussing the distinction between policies and technical
specifications is a waste of time because these are overlapping concepts.
Best,
Niels
>
> -andy
>
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