On 2/5/16 1:02 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
Yeah, let's not have the designers talking with the deployers. That can lead to interoperability and harmony, which IETF is dead set against.
Well, no. This is an artifact of how the IETF works. I think on balance the decision to terminate working groups as soon as they complete their charter work has led to exactly the problems you describe, but it's really bureaucratic rather than malicious. It may be time to start making wider use of maintenance and extensions working groups, although that's a wider discussion for the entire IETF. In any event working groups are typically not chartered on the basis of some of the arguments being made here and the discussion really needs to focus on things that need to be specified. But, if someone wants to take the discussion of M&E working groups to the broader list, I think I'd support that. Melinda _______________________________________________ dane mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane
