On 1/6/21 7:24 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
On 1/6/21 10:13 AM, Michael Thomas wrote:
I disagree. Most of the time the soi-disant "generalilsts" are just
self-aggrandizing and like to hear themselves speak. I remember when
we were creating the DKIM working group we had a whole bunch of them
and their "input" ended up contributing nothing at all other than delay.
There are also plenty of people in IETF, who aren't generalists, who
like to hear themselves speak.
DKIM, or anything that remotely had to do with thwarting spam, may
have been atypical. So many people are burned by spam and have naive
ideas about how to address it, that such groups attract a lot of
contributors with widely varying levels of expertise. And
unfortunately, there's a broad tendency within IETF to disregard the
input of anyone and everyone who wants to address that problem and has
even a slightly different idea. But I don't think such groups are
representative of the whole.
Fortunately, I knitted.
Mike
