Re: I-D ACTION:draft-etal-ietf-analysis-00.txt

At 11:05 AM 3/30/02 -0800, Peter Deutsch wrote:
> Your mileage may vary, etc but if people are taking the IETF work and
> not growing it in the IETF, I personally conclude that the IETF is
> failing to provide a suitable home for new ideas. 
It seems to me that being "a suitable home for new ideas" and being a 
place where the success of a protocol is evaluated on the basis of 
deployment are mutually incompatible.  

Also, a well-designed protocol may later turn out to have
unanticipated value.  

Melinda