>> it's not that cut-and-dried. it can be very costly to users to
>> let the market decide. sometimes the market doesn't decide, it
>> just fragments.
>
> So?
so "let the market decide" is a lousy rule. there's no justification
for it. it's just the sort of thing that someone says when he fears
competition from a better product.
The original focus of IETF was to create and firm-up the Internet. That
war was won.
You're complaining that some application-layer stuff like IM isn't as orderly
as you'd like.
I don't see the connection between your complaint and the original
focus.
Now, refining a few core protocols -- that'd be great. Trying to be
the government of all protocols -- huh? The SRFI process, in the world
of Scheme programming, seems to me the more utilitarian approach to
working on higher-level protocols: there's nearly nothing to fight over
in that process.
-t
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