Dear Fred, you formulated this with real majesty. Good. IETF is a wise men pow wow where users are represented by vendors and its favorite matter is datagram internet scalability.
This puts free softwares and new generation networks out of its scope. They are Research from what I understand. Why not?
Would then the question not be to define the IAB Mission? Should not someone take care of modelization and innovation? jfc
At 01:36 30/01/04, Fred Baker wrote:
"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. This discussion builds on hard lessons learned in research and operational environments, and necessarily includes speakers from those communities. Vendors offer wisdom on what can be built and made to work in their products, and may bring customer or market issues whose owners cannot or will not bring themselves.
The intended goal is well characterized as 'community memory' - written observations and wisdom as well as protocols and operational procedures defined - to enable the datagram internet to scalably deliver relevant services in transit and edge networks."