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Steve, Mike, et. al,

Steve raises a number of good points in which I concur.  I also
apologize for not having produced any review comments yet.

>****One of things this paper does not address - and I believe a very 
>fruitful topic for a future paper - is the role of government relative to 
>protecting national interests.  There are numerous occasions, both in IT and 

This is, of course, a fundamental consideration.  Ronda Crane
did her dissertation on this subject and subsequently published
a book a few years ago.  In many international forums, you see it all
the time, and soon as it starts, it has great detriment.

A couple of new thoughts based on recent events:

Might either ITU or WTO take on an ANSI-like global role in certifying
standards organizations as meeting some minimal standards for
due process and treatment of intellectual property?  The power
is intrinsically embedded in the WTO GATS Telecom Annex.  At
the ITU, there seems to be an evolution where they accept the
new diversity of standards bodies, and in approving a
relationship between them and the ITU, the ITU is requiring that
the organizations meeting some minimal procedural requirements.

In the ever more dynamic Internet world, a number of new standards
bodies are appearing on the scene to handle specialty areas, and
to do the work more quickly than even the IETF.  The World Wide
Web Consortium is a good example; but in addition, new consortia
to deal with Java, Telescript, financial transaction protocols,
Software Engineering Consortium, among others, have appeared.

It's clear that a combination of really dynamic technology and
marketplace - combined with the ability and willingness of
parties of interest to fashion new specialized bodies that do
a lot of their work virtually - is creating a very different
standards environment today.  I noted the article this weekend
in the NYTimes or WashPost about the virtual corporation.  The
same model could be applied to standards bodies today.

regards,