IDPR as a Proposed Standard

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  Dear IAB and IESG members,

  I sincerely regret that Noel's message  brought you into the
  discussion about moving IDPR towards a Proposed Standard
  without proper briefing and enough background.

  However, given this, I feel obliged to point you to the following:

  1) Just because some of the design decisions "were made years ago"
     can not be used as a justification for saying that "it's too late
     to bring some of these up." This is especially true, if the
     design decision "were made without as much data as would have been
     desirable" as was asserted by Noel.

  2) Would IAB/IESG consider inability to obtain further funding,
     or any other funding related problems as a justification for moving
     a protocol towards a standardization ?

  3) It is certainly not correct that IDPR "was done in an open".
     IDPR design was originally done by the ORWG group that was
     CLOSED. At the time the group became open, all of the design
     decisions were already made. Several of you can certainly
     attest to this.

  Yakov Rekhter