Re: First draft for discussion at DVB

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

a brief comment:

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Gorry Fairhurst forwarded Martin Butcher saying:

> It has been noted that DVB has forged good liaisons with various
> external bodies to promote information exchange and the question
> has been posed by several DVB members about liaison with the IETF
> to ensure that effort is not duplicated, expertise is available
> and that good visibility of issues is achieved.
> 
> One problem with the IETF is that it does not readily support such
> liaisons except those formed by the attendees.

Well, there are official memoranda of understandings these
days; thinking of e.g.

RFC3113/3131 3GPP(2)-IETF standardization collaboration

in particular (the 'non-protocol document' bit is always amusing;
these seem intended to keep the non-IETF group happy). The main reason
imo that the IETF doesn't form liasons is that since the
decision-making and document drafting process is more open (to those 
who don't mind wading through email vs attending meetings, anyway) it
thinks it has far less need to...

not sure such a collaboration doc is a worthwhile goal.

L.

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