Observation: Many IETF-ers have entries in Linked-In Observation: So far I have spent many hours establishing my personal linked in network Observation: Apart from a certain degree of persistence I am not sure what value I am getting from this exercise. All of my contacts are people I already have as contacts. Suggestion: I think that it is very useful for networking engineers to take a look at the potential for such technologies and look for ways in which similar features can be added to the open, standards based, unencumbered, non-proprietary Internet. Regret: We did not get out ahead of the curve with Instant Messaging. We should have done Jabber in 1995. Speculation: Social networking is looking for its killer application. Communication filtering appears to me to be the most likely such application. But we should be looking beyond email and the problem of email-spam to the filtering requirements of a multi-modal communications infrastructure. I think that hallam@xxxxxxxxx should be the only communications identifier I need. From a personal perspective I prefer to eliminate the vendor lock in and have an RFC822 address where I own the DNS portion of the identifier. Perhaps we should be looking at some form of rich multimodal second generation of SIP in which social networking is a built in technology, introductions are a first class message type, etc. etc. Identity 2.0 then becomes an instance. The key being that any such technology must be based on DNS names and RFC 822 addreses. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Levine [mailto:johnl@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:40 AM > To: ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation > > >It does appear to be a legitimate attempt at a niche social > networking > >site targeting networking engineers, but I'm not sure we need one. > > If we can't do social networking via existing communication > channels like, you know, e-mail, we're pretty lousy > networking engineers. > > Regards, > John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The > Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, > http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, > please", said Tom, revealingly. > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf