Subject: RE: Interop events & WG Chairs

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 06:42:25 +0300

Brian,

> They aren't WG meetings for several reasons
> - they haven't been approved by the AD and announced as interim meetings
> - often there are specific legal conditions that have to be signed for such events
> - in any case, the IETF doesn't measure or certify conformance or interoperability,
>     because that might create legal liability; we simply record interoperability
>     reports.
> 
> That being said, I can't see any issue with a WG chair attending an interop event,
> identified as WG chair, as long as s/he states clearly that it is not an IETF event.
> And anyone else present would be wise to make all statements clearly as
> non-IETF contributions... see Definition 1c in RFC 3978.

Thanks, this and the other responses have answered all of my questions.

John