> Well, who made us kings? It is one thing to work and publish designs > that hopefully will be good. It is quite another to judge someone else's > design and brand it bad. It is far better to let the market be judge. You're not insisting that the market be judge; you're insisting that IETF lend its support to bad designs in order to help mislead the market. Also, you're simply wrong that it's better to let the market judge things - that is, if you want things to actually work. When vendors insist on a level playing field - what they mean is that they want things slanted in a way that gives them an advantage.