This was down at the end of a long post, but everybody in this discussion
should see it.
Paul Vixie <paul(_at_)vix(_dot_)com>:
as much as i hate to be seen agreeing with mr. raymond, who has
inaccurately characterized both his own representative powers and the
minority status of those views of mine he does not share, there is one
grain of truth to what he has said here of late. standards will be
open, and ietf's choice is not whether standards will be open (that
being foregone), but whether ietf will continue to be the place where
these open standards are defined. "open" in this context requires
actual and passionate adherence to, and not just the mouthing of the
slogans for, process transparency, unbiased decision making, and
technological superiority.
Correct. IETF's choices reduce to working wholeheartedly with the rest
of the open-source community or watching history pass it by. This has
now been noted by somebody who is a lot closer to the center of the IETF
cloud than I am. Will this be sufficient to wake up others? I hope so.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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