If there needs to be a formal proposal to the IETF, it should
not be submitted by me alone. Experience has shown that an
outspoken geek with no apparent interest is not taken as
seriously as would be, for example, the officers in charge of
teaching spoken languages to cadets at West Point, with their
immediate mission-critical interest with profound life-or-death
implications affecting communities throughout the world.
On the contrary, a cogent and technically sound proposal from a single person
describing a technical change within the IETF's purview is likely to be taken a
lot more seriously than a petition with prominent names and no real techincal
content.
Ned