The IETF's problems

[James Seng]

RFC for world hunger? of course not!

the only time you actually going to see an RFC for world hunger is 
probably on 1st April.

Maybe you can try world hunger problem in OASIS? They were suppose to be 
"fair and open platform".

james

todd glassey wrote:

> James - you have illustrated one of the key problems facing the IETF and
> that is that it is NOT a fair and open platform for standards processes.
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> todd
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Seng" <jseng at pobox.org.sg>
> To: "todd glassey" <todd.glassey at worldnet.att.net>
> Cc: "Contreras, Jorge" <Jorge.Contreras at haledorr.com>; "Keith Moore"
> <moore at cs.utk.edu>; "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch at muada.com>;
> <problem-statement at alvestrand.no>
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:16 AM
> Subject: Re: The IETF's problems
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>>>No James you cannot. You can decide what you personally want to work on
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> but
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>>>the instant you try and stop someone else's initiative you become a
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> legal
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>>>problem to the organization. The IETF is not your personal resource, in
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> fact
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>>>the vetting resource is not the IETF's at all. It belongs to the
>>>participants, and any refusal to allow any protocol or submission in is
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> a
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>>>problem.
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>>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".
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>>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
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