"This time, we are going to consider round"
(yes, this is IRTF, but...)
One of the most frequent comments on new work proposals is 'no need to re-invent the wheel'.
Well maybe we should do that more often. We have 40 years of path dependence in IETF working groups. Rethinking a protocol from scratch can have unexpected returns that are completely orthogonal to the original idea.
