On 10/7/21 4:41 PM, Toerless Eckert wrote:
There is no IETF document or IETF leadership statement telling them not to. So why should they not ?
From RFC 7154: "IETF Guidelines for Conduct"
3. IETF participants devise solutions for the global Internet that
meet the needs of diverse technical and operational environments.
The mission of the IETF is to produce high-quality, relevant
technical and engineering documents that influence the way people
design, use, and manage the Internet in such a way as to make the
Internet work better. The IETF puts its emphasis on technical
competence, rough consensus, and individual participation, and it
needs to be open to competent input from any source. We
understand that "scaling is the ultimate problem" and that many
ideas that are quite workable on a small scale fail this crucial
test.
IETF participants use their best engineering judgment to find the
best solution for the whole Internet, not just the best solution
for any particular network, technology, vendor, or user.
(similar language is also in RFC 3184)
Keith
