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Re: "IETF work is done on the mailing lists"

Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net> Thu, 29 November 2012 02:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: "IETF work is done on the mailing lists"
From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
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On 29/11/2012, at 3:32 AM, Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> wrote:

> 
> On 11/28/12 12:57 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> I'm increasingly seeing a "paradigm" where the review happens _before_
>>> adoption as a WG draft.
>> and one consequence is that the design gets done outside of the ietf
>> process.
>> 
> 
> But this isn't necessarily a bad thing.  It's nice to have reasonably
> well thought out ideas come in.
> 

Which then become highly defined precepts that become incredibly resistant to IETF change on the basis that they have been well thought out already (and probably are IPR-ridden) and at that stage the IETF process is functionally reduced to rubber stamping. At that stage the value of the IETF imprimatur becomes highly dubious to the industry its meant to serve.

It's not clear to me if this idea of taking in 'mature' work is altogether a good thing.

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