At 15:50 26/06/2006, Keith Moore wrote:
in IETF what we often do with those ideas is to protect them and
encourage development of them in isolation by giving them a working
group. we sometimes even write those groups' charters in such a way
as to discourage clue donation or discussion of other ways of
solving the problem
+1
The worst is when the bad idea get allocated that way a de facto
exclusive control on a globally key IANA registry in an area where
the IETF has neither expertise, nor interest. The IETF is then to
assume this way, and due to the importance of the Internet, a leading
worldwide responsibility (cf. RFC 3935) however it cannot assume its
related (RFC 3935) duty of competence. Then its (RFC 3935) mission to
"influence the way people design, use and manage" the Internet
becomes a tool in the hands of the bad idea's supporters.
The worst of the worst, is when consensual protections against the
bad-idea are delegated by consensus to the IESG, but the IESG
violates them, and delegates them to the bad-idea's very afficionados.
jfc
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