On 10/31/11 14:45 , Doug Barton wrote: > On 10/31/2011 14:26, Joel jaeggli wrote: >> At a minimum we've got more than enough hubris to go around and if >> inside jokes at our own expense defuse some of that I see no problem >> with it. > > If you want the IETF to be an organization of insiders slapping each > other on the back while congratulating one another on the cleverness of > our inside jokes, this is clearly the road you want to travel. > > OTOH, if you want the IETF to be an open body producing standards for > the big-I Internet, we may want to consider prioritizing clarity and > avoiding gratuitous confusion. As with most speculative business one has to recognize that the process will fail more often than it succeeds. Beyond the proccess that we apply to the production of product, if the work product is bad then no-one will use it. We can stand by the evidence prof provided the RFC series and the existence of the big-I internet that it was found sufficiently informative to be useful. > > Doug > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf