Hi, On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Fred Baker wrote: > At 04:26 AM 1/17/2004, Pekka Savola wrote: > >"The purpose of the IETF is to create high quality, relevant, and > >timely standards for the Internet." > > I think I would state it in these words: > > "The Internet Engineering Task Force provides a forum for the > discussion and development of white papers and specifications > for the engineering issues of the Internet." [...] I pretty much agree with all you're stating -- thanks for spelling it out. > The posting of questions, problems, and ideas > is perhaps *the* key part; standards are from my perspective only one of > the products, and perhaps a byproduct. Right on. This is the core of relevant, high-quality work I think. You could capture of some of those issues in the standards themselves, if you really wanted, but a longer and more in-depth discussion seems to belong in some other form of documents. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings