> > What you say might have been true up until say the mid 1980s, but > > today, it's hard to defend that statement. For many years the vast > > majority of RFCs have been produced by IETF either from working groups > > or individual submissions. > > That vast number does not establish the credibility of the series; the > original ones do. disagree. the value of the RFC series is that most of the important technical specifications for the Internet (below the apps layer, anyway) can be found there. if the RFC series only contained the original TCP, UDP, and IP specs, those documents would still be valuable, but the series would not be nearly as valuable as it is today. > Congestion control originated in a Sigcomm paper, not > the IETF. At the end of the day, it is the IETF that is, IMO, expendable. at the end of the day, we will all be dust, and everything we have produced will have been diffused to the point that those remaining will be unable to reliably tell who did what. to the extent our lives have any value, it's probably not enhanced by our expending energy trying to pin down such things. Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf