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Re: [Rfcplusplus] Conversation as metaphor

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Wed, 11 July 2018 19:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rfcplusplus] Conversation as metaphor
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Hi Eric,

On 11.07.18 20:54, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>
> Indeed. For instance, novelty is one of the first questions one asks
> about a scientific
> paper. And yet here at IETF we routinely publish documents with no new
> scientific
> content at all. Indeed, one might argue that it's better if they don't
> because you have
> more confidence it will work

I agree.  On projects I've worked on, we've generally made it a point to
*not* start at the IETF, precisely because we'd rather kink out the bugs
elsewhere. Also, it's a pretty tough venue to get stuff through.  That
having been said, RFCs are excellent references for how things are
supposed to work.  Those aren't scientific observations and
interpretations, but rather engineering specifications.

Eliot

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