On 2/24/21 12:41 PM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
- Our work is contribution driven.
True, but IETF does have some influence. We're not bound to accept
every contribution (especially if there are reservations about it), and
we sometimes are able to impose some additional requirements on
contributed work. (Whether we do so wisely is a different question.)
- Making protocols suitable for all possible deployments introduces complexity. Particularly for security protocols this is often unwanted.
Yes but it seems to me that we have a poor track record of anticipating
what deployment is likely to look like, and also a poor track record of
designing with some awareness of likely deployment. (Perhaps
especially for security protocols.) Clearly we can't perfectly predict
the future, but some people are able to make very good educated guesses.
Keith
