Please see below.

Thanks and best,
Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cooperation-wg [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Daniel Karrenberg
> Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:33
> To: Gordon Lennox
> Cc: Cooperation WG RIPE
> Subject: Re: [cooperation-wg] Internet 2030
> 
> 
> 
> On 8 Apr 2020, at 10:06, Gordon Lennox wrote:
> 
> > Meanwhile this is from ETSI: …
> 
> 
> However we read these proposals to re-invent things from the standards
> politics angle, the messages RIPE should send are:
> 
> The Internet with TCP/IP protocols is the global utility for
> communication these days. Any new standards, especially those tailored
> to particular operational domains like mobile, must be interoperable
> and
> any new deployments must interoperate.

I can't resist adding that, in hindsight, it would have been better if IPv6 had 
been backwards compatible with IPv4.

> 
> Hallway talk: the atrocious kludges that are deployed today for running
> Internet over mobile are partly due to the relevant standards bodies
> not
> talking.
> 
> Therefore anyone proposing to do work on standards needs to at least
> closely work with the IETF in the standardisation area if not work
> within the IETF.

As I presume we all know, standardization is a very competitive business, and 
forum-shopping is a fact of life. If one SDO does not deliver what participants 
want, they will move to a different SDO.

> 
> RIPE remains ready to provide a forum for discussing the deployment and
> operation of any new protocols and for developing operational
> guidelines.
> 
> Makes sense? Naive?
> 
> Daniel



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