Re: [apps-discuss] IETF technical plenary: the end of application protocols

[Dave CROCKER <[e-mail]>]

On 3/21/2011 8:48 PM, Pete Resnick wrote:
> I sent this to the IAB a few weeks ago. We haven't had much conversation (they
> responded, but the firehose of stuff before the IETF meeting kept me from
> replying until recently), but I thought you all would be amused.


The degree of disconnect about architecture and protocol issues makes this a bit 
challenging to view with humor.  (It's tempting to counter that that's not 
really true since it is so easy to make fun of the situation, but that's not 
what you meant and it's not what I'd find productive...)

The larger issue I see is that the views being put forward for the talk well 
might be reasonable, with sufficient qualifiers and very careful language, but 
no qualifiers are being offered.  Instead the language asserts universals, and 
these most certainly are not correct.

There could be a rather interesting discussion about these issues, given a 
reasonable mix of people and a reasonable format for exploration and debate. 
The current format is cast more for selling a specific view than for 
understanding pros and cons and tradeoffs.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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