Keith Moore wrote: > Joe, > > What you say might have been true up until say the mid 1980s, but > today, it's hard to defend that statement. For many years the vast > majority of RFCs have been produced by IETF either from working groups > or individual submissions.
That vast number does not establish the credibility of the series; the original ones do. Congestion control originated in a Sigcomm paper, not the IETF. At the end of the day, it is the IETF that is, IMO, expendable. (Joe wrote:) >> The term RFC is one the IETF is getting a free ride on. >> >> RFCs core to the Internet itself were independent, pre-IETF submissions. >> It is THEY that establish the utility of the series, not the IETF.
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