on 6/8/2002 4:00 PM Dave Crocker said the following: > If you review the amount of time spent on developing this work, you will > discover that it is a long way from premature. Quite the contrary. The > work has gone on approximately two years longer than it needed to. > the process has continued beyond achieving adequate rough consensus, > because the IETF has been heeding the concerns of a vocal minority of the > community, where most of the concerns of that vocal minority concern > technical issues that are outside of the scope of this working group. If that were true we wouldn't be up to rev 9 of the core draft. Gee, maybe some of the concerns are real, in spite of two years of harping that we are finished. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/