[governance] Towards an IGC Statement on RFC 6852 "Affirmation of the Modern Paradigm for Standards"

[McTim]

I see we are back on list now, whereas before we were off, but never mind...

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:47 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's great McTim, glad to hear it, but perhaps you could point me to where
> I've gone wrong in my reading of the text

see MM and Avri's mails.

... (and also an explanation of how
> assessment in terms of "the public interest" is "epiphenomal"

We endow the Internet with a great deal of baggage. This baggage is
epiphenomenal.   At the heart of Internetworking is the TCP/IP suite
of protocols, which do a remarkable job of passing bits from point A
to Point Z, oftentimes passing the bits via many other points in
between.



 and "market"
> assessment is not...

Some protocols are useful and widely used, some are not, and aren't
widely used.  Some are useful and not widely used.  This is the
"market" being discussed.

>
> I'll take your word (difficult though it may be given what we now know about
> the process of "approval process" of this document within the IETF)

As others have said, this is an IAB document, not developed by an IETF WG.

 that
> "collaboration is the hallmark of the RFC series" but it is curious that
> they would make specific reference to one and not at least equal reference
> to the other...

I don't see how that follows logically.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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