On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman(_at_)meetinghouse(_dot_)net
wrote:
Does this, perhaps, illuminate a flaw or failing in the way IETFs effects
its role as the Internet's official standards body? The more so that it's
not stepping in after the fact to help clear up this mess?
Possibly. I confess I heard the reasons for rejecting the request, but I
still don't fully understand them.
I do wonder if there's a related case study in the way that RSS evolved
into Atom - a case where outside work, and conflicts within it, ended up
being worked under the IETF aegis? (Sort of shame that Atom has not
become more popular.)
I'm not familiar with the story of RSS, but I do know that XMPP and DKIM
are held up as cases where work was started externally and then brought
into the IETF and finished, so there are cases where it is indeed palatable
to the powers-that-be.
-MSK