% Bill: Could you clarify 2 things, if you know the answers to either?
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% Valdis Kletnieks
I was not present so I could not clarify. It does seem pretty
clear that these days, "bad-ideas" are often floated and experimented
with in other venues and only after vetting are brought to the IETF
for standards approval/rubber stamping. It used to be that the
IETF was the venue for exploring "bad-ideas". PreIETF oldtimers
have noted that what was a bad idea a decade ago may be todays
breakthrough. Hence tossing an idea once should not relegate it
to limbo in perpetuity. (see John Klensins concept of using
DNS classes. Last decade, a bad idea... now, a plausable avenue
of exploration!)
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--bill