IETF mission (RE: pausable explanation for the Document Series)

[Keith Moore]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:58:01 -0400
Eric Rosen <erosen at cisco.com> wrote:

> there  has arisen a significant constituency in
> the IETF  (though not seen much on  this list) which believes  that the only
> proper  function  of  the  IETF  is  to  publish  specifications  which  are
> multi-vendor interoperable. 

those people are naive.