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Re: [newtrk] Re: IESG comments on draft-ietf-newtrk-decruft-experiment-02.txt

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Thu, 12 January 2006 02:26 UTC

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> As far as my personal opinion, and please forgive me my bluntness, I
> believe that this whole effort to reclassify IETF documents, while
> well intentioned, equates to paperpushing. Basically, and this stems
> from my operational background, my question is whether this
> reclassification effort is making any difference in the day to day
> operations of the Internet. 


Exactly correct. And nicely said.

The problem with arguments in favor of this work is the tendency to ignore that:

    a) we have never seen a compelling demonstration that the chaff is causing 
Internet indigestion, or

    b) pursuit of this work detracts from other work, as you noted.

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
<http://bbiw.net>
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