Subject: Re: [openpgp] How to re-launch the OpenPGP WG

From: Derek Atkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 10:53:13 -0400

Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 23:27 +0000, ianG wrote: 
>> Here's my big criticism of the IETF process:  like all processes it 
>> eventually ends up becoming a place for people to create silos of 
>> knowledge and careers, and eventually divorces itself from what's 
>> happening out there in the real world.  But it holds the keys to some 
>> powerful Internet protocol components, and while it's not bringing in 
>> the new, outside knowledge, the IETF WG becomes the blockage, the inner 
>> sanctum, the guilds that the IETF swore to bring down.
>> 
>> So what do we do?  Leave?  Stay?  Fight?
> So do you have any better proposal idea?
>
> Anything more governmental (ISO, national standardisation bodies) or
> more commercial (ECMA) would IMHO be quite bad (since they're all known
> to be rather on the dark side of the force, and while they may have
> cookies, it's probably not what we should want).
>
> Not much is left the in the free/community world.... W3? Far too much in
> committee mode either, far to easily influenced by big players (see the
> whole HTML5 DRM stuff).
>
> Doing it independently... doesn't seem appealing either.
>
>
> I'd say IETF is quite the right place.

For now there's nothing that says we *NEED* an official working group.
Although having one would make the process easier.

> Cheers,
> Chris.

-derek

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