Hi Lixia, Michael,
|>> (3) It's not up to us (or any central authority) which tiny changes |>> get made |> |> if you are saying the Internet has no boss, then I agree. |> But I do believe that it is our job to understand what is driving the |> trend, so that we figure out how best to influence or facilitate the |> changes. | |Right, I think we're in agreement here, we just stated it a bit |differently -- when you say influencing and facilitating changes, I |think you mean what I meant when I said developing and |promoting new tools. I think you underestimate the power of the I*TF to help focus techonological development. If we, as a group, reach consensus on an approach and start to implement it, then it carries an enormous amount of weight in directing the rest of the industry. Now, that does NOT mean that we get to dictate the solution. In fact, if we converge on something that the industry things is a non-starter, then it's just wasted effort. However, the power of a consensus can cause thought to crystalize in one direction very, very rapidly. Our deployment of CIDR is a perfect example of this. In the course of about two years, we made a decision on how we wanted to go, went off, wrote the documents, wrote the code and deployed it. Done. Tony _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
