My thoughts about the problems of the IETF

[Jonne.Soininen at nokia.com]

Hi,

but isn't IETF last-call there for catching the inter WG/inter Area issues? 

Anyways, would you have some examples of such cases? Maybe I'm too naive, but I kind of tend to think that the WGs try to do the right thing. I can understand that despite of best efforts errors may happen. However, the reason for errors are usually due to the lack of sufficient review. I'm a little bit skeptical of the idea that some WGs would deliberately try to do something wrong, and try to push through deliberately something that does not work. What would be the point of this? 

Cheers,

Jonne.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Keith Moore [mailto:moore at cs.utk.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 2:23 PM
> To: Soininen Jonne (NET/MtView)
> Cc: moore at cs.utk.edu; Perkins Charles (IPRG); Loughney John
> (NRC/Helsinki); problem-statement at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: My thoughts about the problems of the IETF
> 
> 
> > I would believe that the right way to go is to have the WG the right
> > to approve proposed standards,
> 
> I've seen far too many WGs completely (and sometimes 
> deliberately) fail
> to understand the wider implications of their proposals to 
> believe that
> WGs are competent to approve proposed standards.  
>