On 12/21/2015 5:59 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
I'm not certain we are getting to "good enough" quite often
enough. Moreover, what was "good enough" when the expectation
was that people would not deploy Proposed Standards in products,
at least without understanding that was a risk and treating it
as such, may not be "good enough" when Proposed Standards are
not only deployed but the community's attitude seems to be that
This nicely summarizes a common bit of mythology in the IETF.
First it presumes that folk out there in develop-and-deploy land have no
ability to assess what they are developing and deploying.
Second is that it presumes that there has been some sort of major change
in the way IETF specs are processed pre- and post- Proposed status
assignment.
Both are fundamentally wrong.
The IETF is a collaborative community venture, not a grand parental
oversight commission. Folk out their in product-land have been able to
deal with immature, flakey and changing IETF specs productively for more
than 25 years.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net