Dear Fred,
you formulated this with real majesty. Good. IETF is a wise
men pow wow where users are represented by vendors and
its favorite matter is datagram internet scalability.
This puts free softwares and new generation networks out of
its scope. They are Research from what I understand. Why not?
Would then the question not be to define the IAB Mission?
Should not someone take care of modelization and innovation?
jfc
At 01:36 30/01/04, Fred Baker wrote:
"The Internet Engineering Task Force provides a forum for the
discussion and development of white papers and specifications for
the engineering issues of the Internet. This discussion builds on
hard lessons learned in research and operational environments, and
necessarily includes speakers from those communities. Vendors offer
wisdom on what can be built and made to work in their products, and
may bring customer or market issues whose owners cannot or will not
bring themselves.
The intended goal is well characterized as 'community memory' -
written observations and wisdom as well as protocols and operational
procedures defined - to enable the datagram internet to scalably
deliver relevant services in transit and edge networks."