[Chapter-delegates] Sad news from ISOC Poland

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Lucy Lynch wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Tommi Karttaavi wrote:

> They are not the only large company pursuing this kind of closed development 
> strategy but they are one of the most successful. The tensions between a need 
> for rapid deployment and the time required to develop agreed standards is a 
> factor here. So is the competition for data subjects (end-users).

The problem is that the standards need products to be actually usable.

This is part of my problem with SIP. I own two VoIP hardware phones
(Cisco), run a SIP switch that took me many days to set up and to maintain,
mainly to speak only to some of the ISOC staff and ONE other person.

Facebook solves, in a very brutal way, part of the identity problem
on the Internet, and that's very dangerous. It makes one 
difficult thing easy and so people might be ready to put up with
a social cost. (Btw. how's ISOC Trust & Identity Initative doing?)

I don't expect IETF anymore to come up with new cool stuff
every year (why would they?), since the leading edge is already
somewhere else. But I sometimes wonder why market of products based
on open solutions is so weak. No incentive to invest?

//Marcin