Re: "professional" in an IETF context

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Mon, 01 November 2021 14:58 UTC

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Miles Fidelman wrote:

>> And the goal should be to prevent IETF perform meaningless 
>> engineering such as development of stupid protocols, including but
>> not limited to, IPv6 and LISP.

> Now THIS seems like a living example of something that is both 
> unprofessional AND uncivil.

Thank you very much for clarifying that requiring to be "professional"
or "civil" means prohibiting fair criticism against poor engineering
results.

							Masataka Ohta