Re: Informational RFC-to-be - draft-rfced-info-touch-00.txt

Frank Kastenholz <kasten@ftp.com> Thu, 21 March 1996 23:50 UTC

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 > Is anyone other than me overly concerned over the large number of rfced
 > documents being submitted? Not that they are being submitted per se,
 > but the ratio of non-standards track documents to standards track
 > documents is getting larger and larger.
 > 
 > The reading list is almost the size of our local library!

i am concerned but for a different reason.

my concern is that people are developing protocols, etc, and electing
not to bring them through the ietf and working groups. rather they
are saying "we did this in our thingie..." i think that there is an
unpleasant lesson to be learned here.


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Frank Kastenholz