IESG proposed statement on the IETF mission

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

It is a bad thing.
But we saw in Vienna that the exodus is far from complete yet. So it could 
be worse....

--On 14. oktober 2003 21:37 -0300 Michael Richardson 
<mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> wrote:

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>>>>>> "Harald" == Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no> writes:
>     Harald> sort out which standards were actually needed.  As the field
> has     Harald> grown explosively, specialization has set in, and market
> pressures     Harald> have risen, there has been less and less operator
> participation in     Harald> the IETF.
>
>   I'm unclear if this documents thinks this is a good thing or a bad
> thing.   I think that it is a bad thing.
>
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