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Re: carping about CARP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Sullivan)
Fri Nov 30 18:24:11 2012

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:23:52 -0500
From: Andrew Sullivan <asullivan@dyn.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20121130210154.GJ11066@diehard.n-r-g.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:01:54PM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> implementation would not have been accepted. The result would be a draft
> that would never be adopted and so it is back to start.

"Adopted" by whom?  The procedure, even at the time, did not require
in any way IETF consensus.  Getting a number requires that you tell
others what is going on, not that you justify the going on itself.  
 
> Did you ever read any of the IETF mailing lists and looked at the email
> addresses of those people pushing the hardest? At least in the ones I'm
> subscribed to the bias is obvious.

I think that _ad hominem_ arguments are fallacious, and should be
dismissed as such.

A 

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