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... express their opinions about issues affecting the Internet. However,
it is not a place for companies or individuals to solicit or
advertise, as noted in "IETF Discussion ...
... entirely due to the Olympian efforts of the local hosts, and their
ability to beg, borrow and steal. The people and companies who
donate their equipment, services and time are to be heartily
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... Working Group lists, they will
get a sense of whether or not their presence would be worthwhile for
your company or for the Working Groups.
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... Internet
hardware or software, and no one from your company has ever attended
an IETF meeting, it behooves you to come to a meeting if for no other
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This is not to say that companies should close up shop during IETF
meeting weeks so everyone can go to the meeting. Marketing folks,
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... even technical marketing folks, are usually safe in staying away from
the IETF as long as some of the technical people from the company are
at the meeting. Similarly, it isn't required, or likely useful, for
everyone from a technical department to go, particularly if they are
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... Working Group
mailing lists. Many companies have just a few designated meeting
attendees who are chosen for their ability to do complete and useful
trip reports.
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... vendors to try to sell their wares. People can certainly answer
questions about their company and its products, but bear in mind that
the IETF is not a trade show. This does not preclude people from
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... probably come with a few slides prepared. Projectors for laptop-
based presentations are available in all the meeting rooms. And
here's a tip for your slides: don't put your company's logo on every
one, even though it's common practice outside the IETF. The IETF ...
... don't even put their logo on their opening slide. The IETF is about
technical content, not company boosterism.
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... programs that interoperate. They don't exist to document the
(possibly wonderful) ideas of their authors, nor do they exist so
that a company can say "we have an IETF standard." If a standards-
track RFC only has one implementation (whereas two are required for
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... security patents, and the security community has responded very
favorably to IBM for this (whereas a number of other companies have
made themselves pariahs for their intractability on their security
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... expertise. Do this for the benefit of the Internet
community, not to get your name (or, even worse, your
company's name) on a document. Draft authors are
subject to all kinds of technical (and sometimes
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... What Your Company Can Do ...
... with the open standards of the IETF, and tell the
companies you buy from that you are doing so.
Open Up -- If your company ...
... companies you buy from that you are doing so.
Open Up -- If your company controls a patent that is used in an
IETF standard, convince them to make the patent
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... the standard. In the past few years, patents have
caused a lot of serious problems for Internet
standards because they prevent some companies from
being able to freely implement the standards.
Fortunately, many companies ...
... companies from
being able to freely implement the standards.
Fortunately, many companies have generously offered
unlimited licenses for particular patents in order to
help the IETF standards ...
... unlimited licenses for particular patents in order to
help the IETF standards flourish. These companies are
usually rewarded with positive publicity for the fact
that they are not as greedy or short-sighted as other
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... Join -- Become a member of ISOC. More importantly, urge any
company that has benefited from the Internet to become
a corporate member of ISOC ...
... that happened was that an Informational RFC was published. In both
cases, the press is not fully to blame for the problem, since they
are usually alerted to the story by a company trying to get publicity
for a protocol that they developed or at least support. Of course, a
bit ...