ISO 4217 was definitely not deviced with crypto currencies in mind. In only 3 letters with 1 already reserved (X), there is simply not enough name space to represent all relevant crypto currencies in a recognizable way. Furthermore submitting to those established standards means to submit to the establishment.
Your logo choice exemplifies this course of action further. It is arguably plain and doesnt have any special features that express anything Monero stands for (whatever that is). Id like to understand your reasoning behind your choice. If you indeed payed a professional company to design it for you, they will have certainly asked what you would like to express with it and what your vision is for this project. From what they delivered, I can only tell that you try to fit in with the established norms and customs. If you hope to fleece regulators and the scrutiny of law makers with this approach, I can assure you that you will only get so far before they uncover the anonymous and "potentially dangerous" nature of this technology. You can cloak this project as plainly as you like, you wont hide from their scrutiny for long. When it comes to open arguments among SEC, FinTrac, Monero community & Co. your cover will be blown and you have to come up with some good arguments to justify the degree of privacy Monero dares to provide. Rather then trying to doge the magic bullet, I would advise you to openly tackle the debate with arguments of rights to privacy, abuse of administrative power and civil liberties. Maybe not today but in the foreseeable future you have to step up to the challenge.
The rest of your arguments are quite absurd - how does ISO compliance mean "submitting to the establishment"? You understand that none of your devices would work, you wouldn't be able to use the Internet, so much of what you do would be impossible without bodies like the ISO and the IEEE? Compliance with internationally recognised standards is not "submitting to the establishment", and claiming so just makes you look like a
libertard.
Does the internet not work on devices for
BTC(!) applications? It does and people get accustomed to new ways of doing things. I realize the importance of international standards. In order to shape a favourable future for crypto currencies we have to take a pro active approach to push the boundaries and establish new standards though. If Satoshi would have adhered to common practice and standards, Bitcoin would never have been conceived.
What's SEC and FinTrac got to do with anything? Nearly the entirety of the core team live outside of the United States - I am in South Africa and davidlatapie is in France, for instance. The SEC and FinTrac can do whatever they want, it doesn't affect us, nor do we have to engage with them. This isn't the "Monero Foundation" (such a thing would never exist), this is the core team moving the project along regardless of what sovereign states and individuals choose to do (or not do) with it. We neither need their blessing nor yours.
SEC and FinTrac are just examples for any such agencies all over the world that try to legislate and regulate financial tools and money flows. ZA has them, France and all the other countries also do. When Monero has grown large enough to step out of Bitcoins long shadow those agencies plus central banks and governments (plus NGOs against money laundering, child abuse, drug traffic,..) will engage Monero and try to get it under their thumb. So you WILL have to face them sooner or later. There are two strategies you can pursue: either face them proactively at the right time and explain the merits for economy and civil liberties your system provides much like Bitcoin does right now, or go underground from the beginning and basically accept that Monero will be labeled criminal and forbidden in most juristictions. In the latter case your choices of short code and logo dont line up so I have hopes that you will pursue the open approach to main stream because, lets face it, ban and criminalization of Monero on a large scale is the far less attractive scenario.
Maybe you would like to step out of the lime light and reject responsibility for what is coming, call yourself a developer like Gavin and try to avoid having to make political decisions. Like it or not, each technical decision is a political decision. What you guys write into the code marks the barring for what is built on top of it. Make Monero as anonymous as possible and you make a political decision, introduce black lists (red lists á la Mike Hearn) and you make a political decision. It's in your power to make the right one. Luckily the community can help you guys to find the way.
In this regard an open discussion regarding self-conception and strategy of this project is very important and about due. I encourage everybody to take part!
