Phil. You have captured the essence of the IETF. It is their
home - and how most of the world views that collective. And at
some level it has value to different people and institutions,
especially the participants.
What has been forever amazing over the past 25 years, however, is how a virtual internet concept devised by Louis Pouzin and imbued with lots of funding for tinkering by DARPA and then NSF, became the foundation for a religious cult that views themselves as the all-powerful guardians of some self-implementing specifications that are the salvation of humankind. You have to admit, that is freaky.
Enough said....
--tony r
On 1/9/2023 12:27 PM, Phillip
Hallam-Baker wrote:
You miss out people like myself: Technologists with a personal agenda and independent means to pursue it. The Internet has always been shaped by hacktivism.
