Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

Bob Braden <braden@isi.edu> Wed, 27 October 2010 21:59 UTC

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Tony,

I note that there seems to be some correlation between the degradation 
of the IETF process and
the disappearance of the Internet research community from the IETF (the 
US government
decided that no further R&D funding was required, since the Internet was 
"done".)

Bob Braden
> It would work if the overall process were more efficient. Now we effectively
> go WG I-D to full IS, which is what your eloquent overview of the driving
> force notes. If we truncated WG I-D at the common points people could agree
> to start implementing, and have PS actually document the evolution of the
> implementations, we would get back closer to when the IETF was productive. 
> ...

> Tony
>
>