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

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Thu, 12 January 2006 16:01 UTC

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From: Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>
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Subject: Re: [newtrk] Re: IESG comments on draft-ietf-newtrk-decruft-experiment-02.txt
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David Kessens wrote:
> Joe,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:15:15PM -0800, Joe Touch wrote:
>> I disagree; IMO, the work this represents helps move the chaff out of
>> the way so that the wheat - old wheat and new wheat - is easier to find.
>> Organizing the wheat so it's useful is just as productive - sometimes
>> moreso - as generating new wheat.
> 
> The free market (and open source community as well) is way quicker and
> more efficient in determining whether something is historic/obsolete
> than the IETF. 

As would a free market be quicker/more efficient at deciding what to
standardize. I'd be glad to relieve the IESG of that job too. But as
Eliot pointed out later, both establishing and deprecating standards
seem part of the same job.

Joe

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