IETF WAS Re: [governance] Enhanced Cooperation (was Re: reality check on economics)

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:03:58AM +0200,
 Andrea Glorioso <andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote 
 a message of 345 lines which said:

> Secondly, I disagree with your evaluation of the criteria being
> proposed, one of which is the "rate of adoption of IETF standards",
> if I may simplify. This is a rather objective criterion, which is
> very different from the criterion "rate of adoption of IPv6" (which
> I agree would be a clearly biased one). I note there is at least one
> person in the discussion, i.e. McTim, who doesn't seem to agree that
> "adoption of standards" should be a measure of success of a
> standards-setting organisation.

Regarding evaluation, IETF itself wrote a document about "What Makes
For a Successful Protocol?"
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5218.txt>. It addresses all these
questions and much more. Its main conclusion is that the technical
quality of the protocol is one of the less important factors.

[Those who what a summary and read french can see
<http://www.bortzmeyer.org/5218.html>.]

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