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Re: Let the market be judge (Re: accusations of cluelessness)

2003-10-12 19:30:06
Keith Moore wrote:

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These days, a lot of people seem to be arguing that IETF shouldn't do
engineering.
Hopefully not - not I for sure, I mean that would require a name change ;-) What I think exists is a difference of opinion about what the definition of engineering is. Another well-known institution seems also to be stuggling with this same question:

"....*where numbers count for everything and hunches are scorned...."

*http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/12/nasa.reformers.ap/index.html