Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson dot org> wrote: >> Thinking not-that-far-back to the arrival of the FSF-driven hordes >> trying to stop publication of the TLS authorization document, I think >> the IETF pretty much blew them off, which was the right thing to do >> under the circumstances. > > Some of those posts made relevant points, and came from people who are > responsible for parts of the Internet. If indeed the IETF blew them > off, which I sincerely hope is not what will happen to that draft (the > status tracker hasn't changed status since before then), I think the > IETF will lose credibility in the wider community.
The main effect of that letter-writing campaign was that 98% of the points, relevant and not, were restated over and over again. I was lurking at that time (as now) and my recollection was that the IETF listened to the relevant points the first couple of times, and blew off the restatements. -- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
