[discuss] FW: Comcast undertakes 9 year IETF cosponsorship!?

Sat Mar 22 14:06:51 UTC 2014

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Michel Gauthier <mg at telepresse.com> wrote:

>  At 02:45 22/03/2014, McTim wrote:
>
> If you are trying to make an argument by quoting rfc3869 and then quoting
> a page from the ISOC website I think you will have to do better than that,
> as one is related to research and the Comcast partnership is about IETF
> meetings and other activities.  ISOC itself doesn't do research in the way
> that DNS-OARC or CAIDA or others do it.  ISOC does surveys mainly and
> recently economic effects of IXPs, etc.
>
> If you would prefer public funding for IETF activities, then please state
> that, otherwise, one can't tell what your argument is all about.
>
>
> I only do my collection, analysis and reporting job after sorting real,
> tricky, naive and noisy inputs, on this and other equivalent lists or fora
> where real infuencing strategies are observable.
>

So far, you are not even speculating that there is an 'influencing
strategy", you are merely posting random factoids seemingly in support of
the other MGs snide insinuations.

>
> To my knowledge DNS-OARC is a private club
>

This has nothing to do with what I pointed out about them, that they do
research of the kind that you suggested that the IETF does.

> of which the interest in users support is characterized by its
> https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/dnsentropy page which states: "On
> August 7, 2008, Dan Kaminsky <http://www.ioactive.com/kaminsky.html> will
> release additional details about these poisoning attacks. "
>

another tangental red-herring.

>
> CAIDA membership is beyond financial access to FLOSS IUsers and
> corporations interested in their market, what is my focussed area.
>

This doesn't mask the fact that they do research on 'future Internet issues"

My question to you still stands.

How would you like the IETF to be funded??

rgds,

McTim
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