On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, GTW <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Ted, I like your approach of enquiring what problem we are striving to > solve and I like Russ's concise answer that it is "Recent suits against > other SDOs that is the source of the concern" > > Russ, what are some of the "Recent suits against other SDOs" It would > be good to pin down the problem we are addressing > > There is FTC and N-data matter from 2008 > http://www.gtwassociates.com/alerts/Ndata1.htm >
George -- one recent example is the pending antitrust suit by True Position against ETSI, 3GPP and several of their members (who also employ some IETF participants, I believe). Here is some relevant language from the Complaint: "100. By their failures to monitor and enforce the SSO Rules, and to respond to TruePosition's specific complaints concerning violations of the SSO Rules, 3GPP and ETSI have acquiesced in, are responsible for, and complicit in, the abuse of authority and anticompetitive conduct by Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Alcatel-Lucent. These failures have resulted in the issuance of a Release 9 standard tainted by these unfair processes, and for the delay until Release 11, at the earliest, of a 3GPP standard for UTDOA positioning technology. By these failures, 3GPP and ETSI have authorized and ratified the anticompetitive conduct of Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Alcatel-Lucent and have joined in and become parties to their combination and conspiracy."
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