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Re: "professional" in an IETF context

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Mon, 01 November 2021 18:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: "professional" in an IETF context
To: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>, sarikaya@ieee.org
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From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
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Stewart Bryant wrote:
>>
>> It could be. But IPv6 was made workable by clever modifications over 
>> time and now it works pretty well and widely used.
>
> To quote a well known phrase, “you may think that, but I could not 
> possible comment” … but I will.
Or to quote another long-term protocol world denizen "you could do that, 
but it would be silly."

Miles Fidelman

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