Keith Moore wrote:
Joe,
What you say might have been true up until say the mid 1980s, but
today, it's hard to defend that statement. For many years the vast
majority of RFCs have been produced by IETF either from working groups
or individual submissions.
That vast number does not establish the credibility of the series; the
original ones do. Congestion control originated in a Sigcomm paper, not
the IETF. At the end of the day, it is the IETF that is, IMO, expendable.
(Joe wrote:)
The term RFC is one the IETF is getting a free ride on.
RFCs core to the Internet itself were independent, pre-IETF submissions.
It is THEY that establish the utility of the series, not the IETF.
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