From: "Kyle Lussier" <lussier(_at_)autonoc(_dot_)com>
Message-Id: <E16TQar-0003Vu-00(_at_)zeus(_dot_)ultraservers(_dot_)net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:49:49 -0800
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It's up to an IETF working group to challenge that trust and
threaten to yank the logo, which is the "one true mark" of that
trust.
You do not understand how the IETF works.
Working Groups are transient bodies tasked to do what is in their
charter and then disolve. For example, right now, there is no WG
dealing with SMTP or MIME in general. (The S/MIME working group is
working only on certain security aspects of certain MIME constructs.)
In other words, only in the rare instance of a WG that is writting a
new protocol or generally revising an old one is there a WG which has
any sort of general overview of a protocol. And even then, the output
of the WG has no authority unless approved by the IESG and the WG
ceases to exist when its job of writting or revising the protocol is
done.
The only permanent bodies in the IETF are the IESG, IAB (and perhaps,
depending on how you look at it, the NOMCOM, IRSG, RFC Editor and
IANA). While not a member of any of these bodies, it is my belief that
they would all be opposed to the imposition on them of the burden you
are so zealously promoting.
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Kyle Lussier
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