Without wishing to be nasty, I will point out that we have way more
vendors than operators participating in our standards development.
Into the Future with the Internet Vendor Task Force
A very Curmudgeonly View
or
Testing Spaghetti - a Wall's Point of View
as published in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Volume 35, Number 5, October 2005
http://archive.psg.com/051000.ccr-ivtf.html