Re: Observations on (non-technical) changes affecting IETF operations

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

>> Very interesting write up. IMHO, the hardest challenge facing IETF is
>> that "Internet has been working over several decades". 
>> All the obvious technologies needed to enable Internet have been
>> developed already. All that left are tweaks and minor improvement. 

one of my faves

It's perfectly appropriate to be upset.  I thought of it in a slightly
different way--like a space that we were exploring and, in the early days,
we figured out this consistent path through the space: IP, TCP, and so on.
What's been happening over the last few years is that the IETF is filling
the rest of the space with every alternative approach, not necessarily any
better.  Every possible alternative is now being written down.  And it's not
useful.  -- Jon Postel