what the "scope" disagreement is about

[Keith Moore]

On Thu, 1 May 2003 13:03:22 -0700
"Tony Hain" <alh-ietf at tndh.net> wrote:

> Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> > My apologies to Tony for taking this couple-of-paragraphs 
> > from a very long thread on IETF-Discuss out of context, but I 
> > was curious about his choice of words:
> 
> I specifically chose those words, because the DNS community has
> repeatedly decided not to deal with this in the IETF, even though many
> of the members ship versions of a solution.

a product that works in limited circumstances for a narrow range of
applications isn't appropriate for standardization.

Keith