[1169] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Who wasn't at IETF.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Partridge)
Tue Aug 13 04:31:44 1991
To: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
From: Craig Partridge <craig@sics.se>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 91 10:31:07 +0200
Erik:
I liked your note and it tickled some questions in my mind that I
thought I'd raise with you (and others on the list).
> Our biggest problem is not with the IETF, but with the various TCP/IP
> vendors - their systems usually come default insecure, and default
> configuration for an isolated LAN...
How much has the Host Requirements effort helped here? I know folks
on the Internet have taken to citing it at vendors but wonder how many
vendors are out there who still believe they can ignore it.
I ask because Router Requirements (which is designed to make more
routers more robust, among other things) is coming soon and I'm trying
to gauge its effects on the commercial IP networking market (will people
require RR conformant systems -- will commercial IP networking become
easier)?
Craig
PS: Re your concern about bozos -- convincing guys like Jack to come
to IETF is one way to help reduce the bozo population. (On more
than one occasion I've seen senior managers go back to their
company and suggest that Y not be sent to the next IETF...).
Even if you only get the senior managers there at every other
meeting...
