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Re: [mpls] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp-04.txt> (Encapsulating MPLS in UDP) to Proposed Standard

2014-01-22 09:47:31


On 1/17/2014 9:19 AM, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
Lars,

We seem to be in an endless loop here.

You have made your assertions about your desire to uphold the purity
of any new UDP applications and adhere to the BCP you wrote.

The BCP that the transport area as a whole recommends, in conjunction with the IETF as a whole.

You appear to be very nearly alone in this argument...

The IETF is a very large DDOS attack on people's time. It's very easy for faulty ideas to pop up and not be challenged - easy because there are a lot of people (companies) with vested (financial) interest in promoting their particular approaches, and only a few people who care to spend the time playing "whack a mole" to defend the Internet against these approaches (by either pulling them back into compliance with agreed principles, such as BCPs, or shooting down ideas altogether).

So if your room is full of your own choir singing so loud for your own sake that you can't hear the objections of the few who are providing feedback from outside the room, that shouldn't be surprising. But that neither means the choir is in tune nor that there aren't many outside the room (or who don't attend meetings) who aren't trying to tell you otherwise.

FWIW.

:-)

Joe

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