On 06:25 02/11/2005, Eliot Lear said:
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
The problem is when these views conflict with the motivation behind
the technical proposition. Who is to arbiter the conflict since by
definition of the case there is no human factor IETF expert in the area?
It would seem to me that the market as always will be the ultimate arbiter.
Unfortunately this does not work that simply because IETF is not
exclusive, even if the IANA still give it a leadership . When some
lobby introduces what is a political document to technically
constrain usage into a favorable practice it engages the IETF
doctrine. The market is to accept, or to engage in alternate practice.
We saw that for example with the root system, where alt/open-root
developed. We saw that with IDNA with now national TLDs. We will see
that with globalization where we may see a lack of transition from
IANA to its successor.
If people can't use the work or don't find it palatable they won't.
They have to.
Arguably the decruft experiment demonstrated this in some cases.
Sometimes written opinions from CHI experts might also help to
prevent networking Edsels, if you would.
We are in the case they are disregarded or opposed as not palatable
to the proposing lobby.
jfc
PS. To complete what Eliot says, Edsel Ford was the son of Henry
Ford. It has been a marketing failure (http://edsel.com).
What is interesting is that FORD gave that name to a project named ... "e-car".
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