On Dec 5, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm seriously not clear why Y.2770 is characterized as "negotiated behind > closed doors". Any drafts were available to all participants in the ITU-T, on > exactly the same terms as drafts of other Recommendations. As an example, the > draft coming out of the October, 2011 meeting can be seen at > http://www.itu.int/md/T09-SG13-111010-TD-WP4-0201/en. (I have access > delegated by a vendor to whom I have been consulting, by virtue of their > membership in the ITU-T.) Correct… All ITU Drafts and Recommendations are developed behind closed doors. (If something is developed in a process which is not open to non-members, then, it is by definition developed behind closed doors. Why is this difficult to understand?) > > I should mention that the "Next Generation Network" within the context of > which this draft was developed is more likely to be implemented by old-line > operators than by pure internet operations. > You say that as if we're supposed to think it is a good thing. To many of us, it is one of the many reasons we're not so thrilled by ITUs sudden interest in exercising greater authority over internet operations. Owen
