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RE: what is the problem bis

2010-10-27 10:14:59
At 2:58 PM +0200 10/27/10, Yoav Nir wrote:
So in answering you second question, I don't see any reason why things won't 
keep sticking in PS or even Experimental forever.

Here's a reason, and possibly the strongest one: author pride. If I wrote a 
protocol that I was proud of and I had a strong ego (both of those are purely 
hypothetical, of course...), I would want to see it move forwards and I might 
spend the necessary effort to make it happen.

Related, but not as strong of a motivator, is corporate motivation. If 
WhizzyCorp helped create BlatP and implemented it in their hardware, there is 
some motivation on their part to be able to say "it's a full standard". I think 
personal pride would be a stronger motivator.

I support going to two steps so that those motivated to get to the second step 
don't have to spend the effort on a third. It makes the market for "this 
protocol is more important than that one" waste fewer person-hours on process.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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