--On Friday, 17 December, 2004 13:16 +0100 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since the IETF list is obviously in rehash-of-WG-discussion > mode today, I thought I'd contribute to the flamage, and > rehash the logic behind the list of old standards that arrived > in your inboxes a few days ago..... > > Let's look back on what the IETF has decided previously. > > In 1994, the IETF community resolved to make the following > procedure into "IETF law" through RFC 1602: >... > OK, finished shouting. Eric and Bob: the NEWTRK list is > waiting for your contribution on the principle involved, and > your internet-draft suggesting the change to RFC 2026 to get > rules aligned with reality. > > It's possible that that contribution will overturn the > consensus of the WG to run this experiment. > > But in the meantime - please get out of the way and let us who > want to try run the experiment and evaluate the result. Harald, while I agree in principle, I would suggest that some of the comments Eric, Bill, and others have pointed out call for the beginnings of an evaluation of your experiment. I further suggest that evaluation is appropriate at almost any time, once data start to come in. My recent response to Pekka's analysis of the CIDR documents is one suggestion about where such an evaluation might lead. And, of course, this whole firestorm of discussion on the IETF list, while a welcome distraction from hairsplitting debates about administrative structures, adds strength to the position of those who argued in newtrk that this effort might not be worth the amount of community energy it would take up. john _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf