Can we learn something from IETF history?

Dave Crocker dhc at dcrocker.net
Wed May 28 20:56:58 CEST 2003


Randy,

>>>isn't this what some seem to call a closed conspiracy today?
>> We might call it that today
>> but that is not what it was then.
RB> indeed.  and almost always, that is not what it is today.  unless
RB> one needs to characterize things thusly to artificially polarize
RB> the situation.


just like it is polarizing -- or at least distracting -- to bring it up
in the middle of a thread that had nothing to do with conspiracies or
polarization.

nicely done.

d/
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