It absolutely is. In fact, in the email I sent to my senators/representative (included in another comment[0] in this discussion), I write:
"I'd further urge you to introduce amendments to this bill to accomplish the following:
[...]
2. In addition to tasking the National Institute for Standards and Technology with creating the protocols and interfaces required to implement this bill, invite the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to participate as well. The IETF (https://ietf.org/about/ ) are the people who have, for more than 30 years, been developing, documenting and implementing the technical standards that have made the Internet the economic and cultural dynamo it is today."
[0] Is it possible to reference a specific comment via URL that is a reply to someone else's comment? Not sure how to do that.
It absolutely is. In fact, in the email I sent to my senators/representative (included in another comment[0] in this discussion), I write:
"I'd further urge you to introduce amendments to this bill to accomplish the following:
[...]
2. In addition to tasking the National Institute for Standards and Technology with creating the protocols and interfaces required to implement this bill, invite the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to participate as well. The IETF (https://ietf.org/about/ ) are the people who have, for more than 30 years, been developing, documenting and implementing the technical standards that have made the Internet the economic and cultural dynamo it is today."
[0] Is it possible to reference a specific comment via URL that is a reply to someone else's comment? Not sure how to do that.