On 12/18/15 10:07 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 08:36:00PM -0800, Paul Vixie wrote: >> >> this is the new era of "anything goes" for DNS protocol development. as with >> client subnet, no >> matter how bad an idea is, if someone is already doing it, then the ietf >> documents that use. >> > > I am getting a little tired of this description. If it's "anything > goes" then we can just give up and go home. > > Some people don't like client subnet. I'm not too convinced that the > architectural arguments against it are so good, but that's a different > debate. > > I'm much more concerned about snide remarks dismissing the serious > efforts of people as "anything goes". I think it's unfair, I think it > pretends access to a trancendental goodness that (I am prepared to say > _a priori_) no participant here has, and I think it needlessly > disparages the good faith efforts of many people to make the Internet > better in an environment where we don't all agree about what "better" > is. I think many of us stand improvement (I here include myself) at > making our arguments less charged.
I think we dramatically better off, if we are willing to critically consider the implications of proposals someplace and expose the record of that, and I don't have a better location on offer then here. > Best regards, > > A (speaking, as usual, for myself only) >
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