RE: improving WG operation

"Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com> Tue, 10 May 2005 23:50 UTC

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> Just remember that Internet users have designed P2P, VoIP, 
> NATs, etc. for 
> some and that others have more processing and communication 
> powers than the 
> whole AT&T 20 years ago) and you never know who will need 
> what (even if 
> 99.99% will never read an RFC, they will all read RFC quotes 
> and they must 
> be clear and consistent with what their consultant, their ISP, their 
> operator will tell them). What I mean is there is no Internet 
> "gnosis", 
> there should only be an Internet "gospel".

Exactly, do I have to send an engineer to every IETF WG meeting just to
make sure that they don't decide to delete some feature of some protocol
that I am depending on?


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