Statement, with argumentation, released today by the Internet Society, a not-for-profit membership organization founded to provide leadership in the management of Internet related standards, educational, and policy development issues. It is the organizational home of the InternetCRLFEngineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and other Internet-related bodies. According to the statement, "The Internet Society strongly opposes attempts to impose governmental technology mandates that are designed to protect only the economic interests of certain owners of intellectual property over the economic interests of much larger portions of society.... The effect of these mandates is to grant veto power over new technologies toCRLFspecial interest groups who have continually opposed innovation."CRLF
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