On 2/27/2013 10:18 AM, ned+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
All the more so since it just leads people to use informal distribution methods. I don't recall a case where a chair forbid the discussion of a draft distributed this way. I recall hearing something once about routing around obstacles... Pity we don't internalize such principles fully.
Well, in an odd way we really do internalize most of the core Internet design and architecture rules quite well.
When the topic is IETF process, we seem to have an astonishingly consistent preference for choices that go in the opposite direction from what we've learned in creating the technology...
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net