Re: prohibiting RFC publication
I couldn't agree more Keith, As far as i'm concerned (IMHO) if the standards bodies were to be driven by the vendors, then they would become no more than sanitised purveyors of de facto standards, and je jure standards would be relegated to being nothing more than "misty-eyed" memories. (Apologies if my spelling isn't up to scratch, but it's late!) Martin Keith Moore wrote: > > One would be hard-pressed to inspect the author-list of > > draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt, the work of the associated companies, and the > > clear need for optimizations of application performance, and then deem this > > document not relevant. > > I'm not hard-pressed to do this at all. In fact I find it quite easy, > because I don't care who the authors work for. > > IMHO, we should base not publication decisions on the authors' employers. > We should base them on technical merit. > > The trade press is quite good at fawning over vendors' products; > I don't think IETF needs to take on that role. > > Keith begin:vcard n:Williams;Martin tel;cell:+44 (0)7971 018413 tel;fax:+44 (0)7092 245455 tel;home:+44 (0)1672 514508 tel;work:+44 (0)7971 018413 x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;;;Marlborough;;;United Kingdom version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:UNIX Systems Consultant fn:Martin Williams end:vcard
Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt
I've come into this discussion rather late, however there is at least one salient point which I believe that Keith Moore has argued rather well... In my understanding the role of the IETF is to promote the logical growth and evolution of the Internet Protocols. Whilst 'vendors' have massive technical resources at their disposal, one thing that they are not, is impartial...this is what I have always believed that the IETF's role is! There is no denying the benefits that companies like Cisco have brought to the Internet, but their kotive is, quite simply, profit basedno more, no less. On another note - to the guy who said 'this is way out of my pay grade' - I would have to say...since when did pay reflect IQ? Knowledge and insight are a valuable and rare commodity anyway...if we start discriminating an the basis of income then all of these discussion will become irrelevent within ten years, if not less! (i'm not gonna name any names here! :-) ) Kind regards Martin begin:vcard n:Williams;Martin tel;cell:+44 (0)7971 018413 tel;fax:+44 (0)7092 245455 tel;home:+44 (0)1672 514508 tel;work:+44 (0)7971 018413 x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;;;Marlborough;;;United Kingdom version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:UNIX Systems Consultant fn:Martin Williams end:vcard
