On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:13:13PM -0400, Joel M. Halpern wrote: > There is an argument, which you allude to, which would place this WG > in the Internet Area as part of "infrastructure." While that does > not resonate with me, I do see that there is some merit in that > perspective. On the other hand (to continue the analogy with the DNS despite Richard's shuddering), DNS Extensions is also sort of an awkward fit in the Internet area (perhaps partly because many applications ought to be able to use DNS data but aren't, and perhaps partly because it is in fact an application sitting atop all those other things worked on in the Internet area). > encoding. (The arguments get complex, and it takes care to avoid > religious assertions.) Indeed -- particularly when history becomes one of those topics of religious dispute. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf