Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Hiya,

On 16/11/2020 16:52, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 11/16/20 11:47 AM, Salz, Rich wrote:
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>> There's a counter-movement among many that the IETF should not be 
>> building bespoke tools.  This seems, most notably, to come up in 
>> meetecho v other videoconf systems.
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> Yeah, I emphatically oppose that counter-movement.    As far as I can 
> tell it's basically an effort to make IETF less functional, less able to 
> serve its purpose.

I don't think impugning people's motives is fair there,
and asserting that they are making "an effort to make
IETF less functional" commits that sin IMO.

IIUC there are a bunch of people who think the IETF would
be better run if we used COTS products and services much
more. I don't tend to agree with that (being unfond of e.g.,
the privacy-loss and lack-of-control that I think would
ensue), but I do think those people are well-intentioned.

S.

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