Keith;
p.s. I do however think that, given the tendency of various providers
these days to violate the internet protocol specifications and
erode the ability of applications to run on the network, the
community might benefit from some kind of "standardized" (in the
loose sense) description of IP service (rather than ISPs) that could be
specified by customers. and IETF would appear to be the organization
which is best suited to define such terms.
It exactly what IETF is (or, at least, was) doing, when loose sense
means "standard to be used on the Internet".
IETF is "Internet Engineering Task Force", not "IP Engineering
Task Force".
IETF can't say anything to braindead protocols of braindead providers
in their purely private IP network.
Masataka Ohta