what are the real problems

[Ted Lemon]

> On the other hand the IETF still manages to undertake a certain amount 
> of
> Bad Idea filtering, and the criteria for a Bad Idea has some reference 
> to
> a generic engineering model of the Internet as we know it.

> If the only role of the IETF is to bless the offerings from certain 
> vendors
> who hold significant market share and to soundly rubbish offerings from
> those vendors to whom the Market has shown displeasure, then
> we are all wasting our time.

I think there's a middle ground between the extreme of preventing 
anything from happening that might change anything, and the extreme of 
blessing everything.   My experience has been that we tend to err more 
towards the former than the latter (indeed, I think there's no danger 
of us erring towards the latter), and I've seen some very good ideas 
shot down as a result.