Re: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Policy Proposal for LACNIC Region

[Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>]

Pim,

It really isn't worth arguing with the imaginary "Jeff Williams".
The person playing "Jeff Williams" on the Internet has been
repeating this misinformation about the US having paid for
IPv6 development for years. It is indeed pretty annoying for the
majority of us among the IPv6 designers funded either by private industry
or by other countries, but "Jeff Williams" never allows "himself"
to be confused by facts.

We should all resolve to simply ignore mail from "Jeff Williams."
There are filtering mechanisms in most mail agents that make this
rather easy.

   Brian

Pim van Pelt wrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> |   IPv6 was developed with public funds paid predominantly by
> | US tax payers.  Hence IPv6 is a PUBLIC resource.  As such
> | membership for any and all stakeholders is or must be assumed
> | and unencumbered.
> 
> IPv6 was developped by the IETF and IAB, which may have been paid by US
> tax payers (to some extent), but development did not stop at paperwork.
> 
> Software engineers, router vendors, network architects and engineers,
> and even endusers all put their fair share of energy in its continued
> development. I am sure that IETF members' attendance is not paid by the
> US government but by their respective employers.
> 
> Saying IPv6 was developped predominantly using US tax payers' money is
> shortsighted at best, and generally speaking entirely wrong.
> 
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> Pim van Pelt                 Email: pim@ipng.nl
> http://www.ipng.nl/             IPv6 Deployment
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