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Re: "The IETF has difficulty solving complex problems" or alternatively Why IMS is a big fat ugly incomprehensiable protocol

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Sat, 10 September 2005 14:52 UTC

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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:38:41 +0200
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: Spencer Dawkins <spencer@mcsr-labs.org>, ietf@ietf.org
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--On 9. september 2005 13:55 -0500 Spencer Dawkins <spencer@mcsr-labs.org> 
wrote:

> This was quite funny - both of you!
>
> Of course, the first thing to do when you want to lose "complexity" is
> "Stop adding to the problem" (as in "Put down the fork and push away from
> the table...").

standards bloat solution:

anyone proposing a new feature has to propose two features to be retired.
anyone proposing a new standard has to propose two standards to be retired.

the proposal for retirement has to be accepted before the proposal for the 
new thing.

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