Phill,
As a result the IETF is a standards body with 2000 active participants that produces on average less than 3 standards a year and typically takes ten years to produce even a specification.
It is well understood that the Internet mainly runs on Proposed Standards, so the appropriate metric is how many Proposed Standards the IETF produces a year. I think you will find that is more than three. We are certainly slower than we should be, but I think you will find that the typical time from a 00 draft to a Proposed Standard is significantly less than ten years. Let's see - HTTP/1.1 was published as Proposed Standard in January 1997, and draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-00.txt was posted in November 1995. Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf