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Re: Fwd: Re: IP: Microsoft breaks Mime specification

2002-01-22 22:20:02
At 01:15 PM 1/22/2002 -0800, Marshall T. Rose wrote:
the ietf does standardization, it does not do interoperability testing,
conformance certification, or protocol policing. we rely on other
organizations and the market for those tasks.

marshall,

Although I thought your note was wonderfully thorough, concise and insightful, it appears that your core message was missed by some.

What I took to be your core message was that if an organization is going to claim responsibility for judging the adequacy of implementations, then that organization needs to create a thorough and fair process for creating and handling those judgements. Anything informal or incomplete would be extremely irresponsible.

The fact that such irresponsibility would likely have legal impact should not distract anyone from noting that, first and foremost, anything less than a full-blown and fair process would be irresponsible.

As others have noted, the IETF is rather busy doing a different job. So the most the IETF should do is wish someone well if they try to pursue this assessment-and-enforcement job.

Alas, it is not possible for the IETF to do everything, as we keep discovering.

d/


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