On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Keith Moore
<moore(_at_)network-heretics(_dot_)com>wrote:
On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
This protocol has established a legacy base, as in it is going to be a
part of the infrastructure we have to work round for decades even if Apple
abandon it tomorrow.
It is now futile to attempt modification of the protocol except in
limited ways that do not impact the legacy base.
Therefore we need to have a description of the protocol as a standard
used on the Internet.
Does not follow. Having a description of the protocol, as it was
deployed, documented is usually a good idea. Having it as standard, not
necessarily so. There are a great many protocols which have "established a
legacy base" which are not suitable for standardization.
Internet Standards are what run on the Internet.
The reason that I keep proposing process and document changes is because I
would like the IETF to be more effective in playing a leadership role in
Internet Standards making.
But take a look at the events in Egypt and Tunisia. The events that are
beginning in Lybia and Bahrain. The Web was originally designed and deployed
in the aftermath of the year of miracles, 1989, the year the Berlin Wall and
the iron curtain fell.
The Web is bigger than one person or one organization.
So expecting to control its growth or development is as futile for us as for
anyone else.
Which if people think about it, is rather a good thing. If the IETF had the
ability to control the development of the Web, the tyrants and the dictators
who are murdering their own people as I write would be attacking the IETF as
well.
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