Dave Crocker wrote:
With respect to getting work done, this is a bottom-up organization,
not a top-down one. (That's why I think Area "Director" is a serious
misnomer and Area "Facilitator" would be far more accurate.)
But it seems pretty clear that people regard the IETF as
a bit more than that. Maybe they shouldn't, but they do.
Yes, there is quite a bit of mythology about the IETF. Sometimes it
borders on mysticism...
Bottom up is generally a good thing, and that's certainly been IETF's
traditional modus operandi. But... in that IETF is the official
standard body for the Internet - and it's ultimately the standards that
hold the Internet together -- isn't the real discussion about:
1. Are the emerging scale, scope, complexity, and issues involved in
Internet operation/management/<your favorite term> highlighting the
limits of that bottom-up (or perhaps, arms-length) approach to the way
IETF is playing its role?
2. Are there changes needed?
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra