Post #3660090

@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange Here's the real story that RFC 7282 avoids citing: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/486/492/ Antitrust law has an exception for standards-development organizations, but only when they provide "openness, balance of interests, due process, an appeals process, and consensus" (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/4301#a_8). This is why IETF claims that a "wide range of perspectives is represented", that "decision-making requires achieving broad consensus", etc. These are not promises that IETF can easily weasel out of!