On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:12:13AM +0200, Eliot Lear wrote: > Question #1: Is such a signal needed today? If we look at the 1694 > Proposed Standards, are we seeing a lack of implementation due to lack > of stability? I would claim that there are quite a number of examples > to the contrary (but see below). In connection with that question, I'll observe that a very large number of the DNS protocol documents have not advanced along the standards track, and efforts to do something about that state of affairs have not been very successful. In addition, any time there is an effort to make a change to anything already deployed is met by arguments that we shouldn't change the protocol in even the slightest detail, because of all the deployed code. (I've been known to make that argument myself.) I don't know whether the DNS is special in this regard, though I have doubts. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf