On 3/6/2016 8:26 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
If we're going to let
the market decide there's inevitably going to be some waste,
but we really have put a pile of time and effort into standardizing
things that have never seen any uptake and almost certainly
never will. That doesn't bother me that much, but what does
bother me about it is that that's one of the reasons we're slow.
I'll suggest that that's not the reason we're slow. Rather, there are
two other reasons:
1. When we start an effort, we do not press for demonstrated
community need -- but more importantly, demonstrated community interest
in /using/ the output. So the folk who work on a topic tend to have no
sense of urgency. (Even when there is a claimed sense of urgency, such
as for STIR, the work often is not pursued in a fashion that matches the
claim, with an eye towards rapid development and deployment.)
2. The folk making IETF approvals feel an unfortunate fear of
letting flawed specifications through the process, even though the fear
does not produce obviously superior results. So we impose high barriers
to entry and high barriers to completion.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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