Re: Bad/Good ideas and damage control by experienced participants

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 6/21/22 05:05, Lloyd W wrote:

> it takes a village to raise a baby.
> it should take an IETF to raise a newbie.
>
> Everyone's job, etc.

concur.    And if there's not a functioning IETF community that has the 
shared goal of building and maintaining the Internet ecosystem for the 
general good, I don't see how that can work. But IETF has largely 
destroyed the sense of community that once existed.

Though an alternative path might be to develop an academic discipline of 
Internet protocol engineering, and expect Internet protocol engineers to 
have degrees in that discipline.   But I don't have a tremendous amount 
of faith in academia to preserve wisdom.   Better than nothing, I suppose.

Keith