At 18:47 06/09/02, Bob Braden wrote: >I personally agree with you that the Internet community would benefit >from putting more energy into writing and rewriting applicability >statements rather than energy into generating new protocols, but >unfortunately it is hard to find the motivation and funding for doing >the right thing in this case. > >I think that your question really points to what should be done in the >future rather than how we got where we are, but it is useful to start >by understanding the history in the IETF (and before). Dear Bob, thank you for his information. Your absolutely right about taking advntage from history. What do you think about the unified RFC protocol proposition in that context? Is that a first attempt, or have there been other attempts? jfc