Re: Speec I'm intending to deliver on Thursday

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

On onsdag, feb 5, 2003, at 03:18 Europe/Stockholm, Harald Tveit 
Alvestrand wrote:

> see http://www.alvestrand.no/speeches/free-is-better.html
>
> context: "POLITICS OF CODE - SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE NEXT
> INTERNET" - see http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/code/
>
> main point is that mandating standards does not work (carrot, not 
> stick, works better for standards adoption).
>
> will be delivered verbally, so I can gloss over the missing dates.
>
> For your interest....
Extra input:

[A] This is not ITU or IETF. This is about "standards will only be 
deployed if users start using them". IETF also have many (good?) things 
which are not deployed. But, at 100.000 feet, of course the ITU and 
IETF are running using different base views on things.

[B] Dog-food story. Governments and others can not only give out 
carrots, they should start taking the first bite using it, showing it 
is a good carrot.

    paf