--On tirsdag, oktober 05, 2004 00:57:22 -0400 "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dave Crocker <dhc2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:1. Nothing about the reorganization is going to make IETF standards be more useful or be produced significantly more quickly. Hence, reorganization has nothing to do with the really serious threats to IETF long-term survival.
Indeed it does not. I've been lurking on this list for a couple of months now, and I am fighting an increasing feeling that I am watching deck chairs being rearranged on the Titanic.
In the last 60 days, the IETF has taken the worst blow to its credibility that I have observed in the entire history of the organization. I refer, of course, to the Sender-ID debacle, which exposed IETF's inability or unwillingness to defend Internet standards against patent predation even when the existence of prior art is readily establishable.
Eric,
the MARID WG was shut down because it was unable to reach consensus.
That is, indeed, a failure of the IETF. But not the one you argue.
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