From: "Kyle Lussier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:49:49 -0800
>... > >It's up to an IETF working group to challenge that trust and >threaten to yank the logo, which is the "one true mark" of that >trust. You do not understand how the IETF works. Working Groups are transient bodies tasked to do what is in their charter and then disolve. For example, right now, there is no WG dealing with SMTP or MIME in general. (The S/MIME working group is working only on certain security aspects of certain MIME constructs.) In other words, only in the rare instance of a WG that is writting a new protocol or generally revising an old one is there a WG which has any sort of general overview of a protocol. And even then, the output of the WG has no authority unless approved by the IESG and the WG ceases to exist when its job of writting or revising the protocol is done. The only permanent bodies in the IETF are the IESG, IAB (and perhaps, depending on how you look at it, the NOMCOM, IRSG, RFC Editor and IANA). While not a member of any of these bodies, it is my belief that they would all be opposed to the imposition on them of the burden you are so zealously promoting. >... > >Kyle Lussier >AutoNOC LLC Donald
