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Re: [Pesci-discuss] Driving proposals

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Thu, 10 November 2005 17:44 UTC

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:43:59 -0500
From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: dcrocker@bbiw.net
Subject: Re: [Pesci-discuss] Driving proposals
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--On Thursday, November 10, 2005 09:41 -0800 Dave Crocker 
<dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:

>...
> A technical proposal has a target user population "out there"
> in the public community.
>
> A process proposal has a target user population right here,
> since our shared environment.
>
> Whereas a technical proposal can succeed even if it is
> marginalized among the rest of the IETF community, a process
> proposal cannot.
>
> When the leadership of the IETF demonstrates, at best, benign
> neglect of significant change effort, it simply will not
> happen.

At the risk of further extending the recent harmony, I 
completely agree with Dave's analysis.

    john


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