Complex Problems

[Brian E Carpenter]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
...
> I think the mismatch between the WG short-term engineering model and the 
> need to do work at a "principles" level is worthy of being called out as 
> part of our "problem statement".

Undoubtedly. But a closely related problem is how to get the IETF at
large to put effort into work at the "principles" level. My efforts
last year to get input for a revision of RFC 1958 were an exercise
in frustration. 

This was very different from 1996, when we got lots of input
for the original version of RFC 1958.

   Brian