My thoughts about the problems of the IETF

[Keith Moore]

> Keith> I've seen  far too many  WGs completely (and  sometimes deliberately)
> Keith> fail to understand the wider implications of their proposals
> 
> I think  cases like  this are  not so much  due to  a deliberate  failure to
> understand,  as  to  a  difference  of opinion  about  applicability,  or  a
> difference of  opinion about the  importance of these  "wider implications".
> The inability of the IESG to recognize that there is a legitimate difference
> of opinion  about the importance of  certain "wider implications"  is one of
> our biggest problems. 

differences of opinion are understandable.  whether it is "legitimate" to let
a narrowly focused working group decide what is best for the entire Internet
is a different question.