Right, that is the foced outcome of the current practice. Without an independent channel, people find other avenues outside the IETF to get their work done. regards, suresh --- "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:42:50 -0800 (PST), Pyda Srisuresh > <srisuresh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I too agree with Mohsen's comments, overall. What Mohsen points out as true > > eight years ago continues to be true even now. Not a lot changed, IMHO. I > > believe, it had gotten worse. IESG continues to wield enormous influence > over > > the independent submissions sent to the RFC editor. The RFC editor needs to > be > > independent. > > Why? There are plenty of other publication venues. > > > --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf