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Re: "professional" in an IETF context

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Mon, 01 November 2021 14:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: "professional" in an IETF context
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Masataka Ohta wrote:
> Keith Moore wrote:
>
>>> It's what we expect of our doctors, lawyers, and... ENGINEERS.  It
>>> is an ENGINEERING Task Force, after all.  And I would hope that
>>> most of us here are actually engineers, with some reasonable level
>>> of engineering knowledge, experience, and professionalism.
>
> 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.

Miles Fidelman

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nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown

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