> From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore@xxxxxxxxxx] > > > From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore@xxxxxxxxxx] > > > > > I think that Dave's message reflects a common frustration in IETF > > > that we talk a lot about particular problems and never seem to do > > > anything about them. > > > > Quite so, which is why most of us feel that there should be > a strong > > bias in favor of action and experimentation rather than > inertia and analysis. > > I hope you're wrong about that, because this is supposed to > be an engineering organization. It is infeasible to > determine by experimentation how well a protocol will work at > Internet scale. We are talking about experimentation in ways of doing business at the scale of an organization with approximately 2,500 or so active members. The individual working groups have at most 100 active members. That is four orders of magnitude less than Internet scale. The comparison is utterly ludicrous and overblown. The IETF has singularly failed to scale to Internet size. It has not even made a serious effort. It is extremely unlikely that any organization would work at that scale.
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