Hi Martin, The DNT privacy work was just an example of something that did not work out. At this point in time the details don't matter anymore since the work already happens at the W3C. My point is that you will not find interest from young engineers to work on 10 year old topics. You can try it yourself: give a talk at a university and see the reaction from the students. Pick a lower-layer topic and a topic from the application layer (some Web stuff). Ciao Hannes On 5/2/12 11:07 PM, "ext Martin Rex" <mrex@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hannes Tschofenig wrote: >> >> When people suggest new work to the IETF they often see a strange >> reaction. I remember when Mozilla came to the IETF and proposed to >> work on the privacy topic "Do Not Track". I couldn't find support >> for doing the work in the IETF. I don't exactly know why people >> didn't like it but the W3C immediately picked it up and had seen >> lots of new companies (mostly from the advertising industry) >> joining the W3C. > > What exactly to you mean by "came to the IETF and proposed to work > on the privacy topic"? > > What is the I-D that you submitted and how many volunteers were there > to do the work? And who opposed that you do the work within the > IETF? > > What usually does not work in the IETF is that you "drop off" an idea > and "pick up" a standard some time later... > > -Martin