On Jul 7, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
In the meantime, BGP and HTTP, to name just two of the protocols without
which the internet and the web wouldn't exist, still don't have standard
status.
I think I'd probably argue that the context has changed. It
wasn't *that* long ago that there were publicly-available
systems with no root password that everybody knew about, too.
But anyway, I don't think it's at all clear to me that navel-
gazing is impeding progress on BGP or HTTP. I think it's
possible that more navel-gazing may be called for, actually,
to solve problems like this.
I think there has been a sufficiently large number of ridiculous
legal threats thrown around to suggest that getting policies
nailed down and written up isn't a bad idea.
Melinda
_______________________________________________
Ietf mailing list
Ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf