Re: [ga] Another committee of cronies?

["Roberto Gaetano" <ga_list@hotmail.com>]

Kristy wrote:

>understanding.  The
>IETF has not been a technical standard setting body for a while now as we
>all are working with other groups who do require technical skill,
>knowledge, and understanding.


May I know which are the other more authoritative Internet standard setting 
bodies that pop up every now and then on this list as alternative to the 
IETF (and maybe an estimate of the share of the market that follows them 
rather than the IETF as guidance for products and services)?
As a former employee of a telecom standard making body, I am just curious 
about the answer. Personally, I suspect that on this list we lose track of 
the dimension of the reality: a couple of dozen people should be 
representative of all Individual Domain Name Holders, a posting with a 
couple of "me too"s should be adopted by ICANN as a consensus policy 
statement, a team somewhere that nobody else has heard about may become the 
authoritative Internet standard setting body, the small percentage of users 
of the alternate roots should have priority over the A-root, and so on.
Quite interesting, methinks.

Regards
Roberto




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