[142609] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Jul 10 18:30:26 2011
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:29:26 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGXD8VuygV-UX_oqNQGMSO7k+rzF39QLoU_rmxmg4aKrzA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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> The IETF is run by volunteers. They volunteer because they find
> designing protocols to be fun. For the most part, operators are not
> entertained by designing network protocols. So, for the most part they
> don't partiticpate.
Randy Bush, "Editorial zone: Into the Future with the Internet Vendor
Task Force: a very curmudgeonly view, or testing spaghetti," ACM SIGCOMM
Computer Communication Review Volume 35 Issue 5, October 2005.
http://archive.psg.com/051000.ccr-ivtf.html
