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Re: [Terminology] [Gendispatch] WG Review: Effective Terminology in IETF Documents (term)

Niels ten Oever <lists@digitaldissidents.org> Fri, 30 April 2021 09:41 UTC

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On 29-04-2021 21:47, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 4/27/21 11:19 AM, Niels ten Oever wrote:
> 
>> it is probably better to describe the actual situation, namely that the majority of the tech industry and other standards bodies have reached consensus on the topic, and the IETF is still making up its mind.
> 
> IMO this is a bit unfair for multiple reasons.
> 
> But it's certainly fair to say that IETF is slower than we'd like to be at developing technical standards, and even slower at developing standards for itself - because we never developed an effective process for the latter.
> 


The development of 3GPP and IEEE standards and procedures is generally slower than in the IETF. There is some quite good quantitative analysis on this. 

So I do think the characterization I initially provided is factually correct and fair, both absolutely and relatively. 

Best,

Niels


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