The IETF's problems

[James Seng]

> No James you cannot. You can decide what you personally want to work on but
> the instant you try and stop someone elses initiative you become a legal
> problem to the organization. The ISTE is not your personal resource, in fact
> the vetting resource is not the IETF's at all. It belongsx to the
> participants, and any refusal to allow any protocol or submission in is a
> problem.

We (as in IETF) can decide what we want to do or not, like it or not, as 
a group. If someone comes along and say they have a solution for world 
hunger and wants to publish it as an RFC, we will tell them "go away".

Proposals not accepted in IETF can seek out other groups or they are 
free to deploy it anyway. IETF could not and will not step them. It is 
not a legal problem.

-James Seng