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Re: [ietf-smtp] IETF Policy on dogfood consumption or avoidance - SMTP version

2019-12-26 10:11:52
On 12/26/2019 7:59 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
  But one should not legitimize all existing
practice as proven by experience, without conducting actual measurements to support such assertions.

Hence my pressing for folk to learn more about current realities from folks with years or decades of hands-on experience, which happen to include quite a bit of measuring.


It's fine to explore enhancements to theory, but not in a standards group.

By that argument, there would never be any new standards produced, and nothing to counteract the entropy that plagues the Internet.

Merely as an example:

   What Makes for a Successful Protocol?
   https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5218

d/


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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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