Umm... the Internet has no owners, no government overseers - it is
global infrastructure, that we've come to depend on, that's
self-organized around standards that are written by those who show up,
tested experimentally, and voluntarily adopted. For now, the IETF
standards process is as close as we have to governance - and it largely
operates as a 24x7x365 town meeting, of those who show up.
For now, it seems like a rather good model to emulate, and expand to
other areas of endeavor (say, the next generation of town meeting
government in our communities - which has been my focus since 1992).
Unless & until something better comes along - we need to worry about the
care & feeding of IETF - and doing so in ways that don't compromise the
core model & values.
Miles Fidelman
On 5/2/20 6:03 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
On 5/2/20 5:56 AM, Leif Johansson wrote:
I am not sure why having IETF around "forever" is a good thing.
Personally I'd rather the IETF that goes away when it has outlived
its usefulness than stick around forever funded by the "endowment"
while keeping a priviledge class of "standards professionals"
around to produce paperwork.
I'm not saying were there today but lets not bemoan the lack of
funding that might greese those particular skids. You know what
they say about the mother of all invention...
+1
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
