Re: Too many changes?

[William Allen Simpson <[e-mail]>]

> From: Gary Scott Malkin <[e-mail]>
> I would like to suggest that we spend a little more time trying to fix the
> existing problems with minor changes (as we have done so successfully for
> so many years) before we try to start all over again.
>
I cannot disagree with you more.  I think of the Crocker/Malamud
proposal as a condensation of the ideas put forward by this WG, into a
semblence of a plan.  But it is really only minor, compared with what
*I* would do (if I were king).

They kept the important structure that get things done (WGs), and the
important philosophies about how to get things done.  They did it inside
the current framework, merely changing roles of existing bodies (with
appropriate name changes), while keeping similar relationships.

*I* would go a lot farther, by severing all ties with the IAB and ISoc,
and funding the IETF by going after the NSFnet funding, and with a
replacement InterOp.  (The amount of money InterOp brings in could
run the backbones in EVERY country, not just the U.S.)

So, just think of their proposal as the moderate compromise plan....

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