Re: [Softwarepatents] [Patents] TODAY/URGENT: Stop IETF Enactment of Patented Standard for TLS

[Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe@ugent.be>]

On 12 Feb 2009, at 00:48, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> > Seth Johnson wrote:
> > > (Urgent.  Send your note TODAY and CONFIRM the automatic reply from
> > > IETF.  You can cc campaigns@fsf.org .  Three links below, FSF's  
> > > action
> > > page, Glyn Moody's blog, and the list announcement for TLS-AUTHZ at
> > > IETF.  -- Seth)
> >
> > Really, the IETF is a very open community, mail flooding the main
> > mailing list may be quite counterproductive; why non just subscribing
> > and contributing to the discussion? That would actually help who is
> > seriously defending your position:
> > http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg55526.html
>
> IETF doesn't want feedback.

That's not what I see in the message you forwarded. I just see a  
request from a person who has nothing to do with the entire discussion  
asking to stop spamming random people (other than that they work on  
one IETF standard or another -- that does not mean by definition that  
they define general IETF policy, nor that they have anything to say  
about the particular IETF standard you are concerned about).

Mail bombing campaigns are seldom a good idea. Especially when they  
are unleashed indiscriminately on a huge collection of independent  
technical experts who may or may not actually have anything to do with  
what you are talking about.


Jonas