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Re: IETF Chair

Timothy Mcsweeney <tim@dropnumber.com> Tue, 13 October 2020 19:04 UTC

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:04:02 -0400
From: Timothy Mcsweeney <tim@dropnumber.com>
To: Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org>, Khaled Omar <eng.khaled.omar@outlook.com>
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Hi Kyle,

>Indeed, one of the critical functions of the IETF (and, really, any
>SDO) is to discriminate: between good and bad ideas, productive and
>unproductive uses of time, between work that advances our shared
>values and work that opposes it. You will not get much support for
>rubber stamping anyone's proposals regardless of merit.

Isn't there usually a distinction between the standard and the implementation?  For example, if a 2x4 is a standard for building stuff, should the 2x4 standard body care if you use it to build a villa or a dog house?  Or maybe a better question is, shouldn't standards be made in a way that allows anyone to implement?  And if nobody is implementing something, can it still be considered a standard?

Tim





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