Personally, I don't believe in any "authority" telling me what's needed, what would be the future and what to do next. Necessity is the mother of all invention. The market today needs to have the standard protocols in a number of areas. IETF seems to be the right place to get job done. ;-)
Best regards, - Ping _____ From: Franck Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 7:09 PM To: Ping Pan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'IETF discussion list' Subject: Re: Deployment Cases Isn't it the role of the IRTF/IAB/? to look at which areas should the IETF put more effort into? Is there some kind of vision, road map, looking forward? A wish list, which would stay as a wish list pending people willingness to work on the items. I think there is a need to analyse orientations, like bringing an outsider to speak to IETF to raise new issues, like at last IETF with power and computing and the fact that wakeonlan does not work and would be real useful: how much intelligence to put in the card to wake up the PC only when needed and not every time someone send a packet to the card. Cheers Ping Pan wrote: -----Original Message----- From: Dave Crocker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 11:45 AM From outside IETF: XMPP iSCSI > MPLS Dave, MPLS is an IP technology that has been largely driven inside IETF. Millions of users have benefited from the backbones running with MPLS protocols. It's about 10-year old. MPLS has refined, modified and reused many other IETF protocols, RSVP, OSPF, ISIS and BGP etc. Also for the role of IETF, I think it should take a more active role in creating standard protocols for the industry. One example comes to mind is in the area of streaming video - way too many proprietary protocols today. Another place that needs some serious help is P2P. The lack of standard in those areas has negative impact to their growth. Regards, - Ping _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- Franck Martin ICT Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] SOPAC, Fiji GPG Key fingerprint = 44A4 8AE4 392A 3B92 FDF9 D9C6 BE79 9E60 81D9 1320 "Toute connaissance est une reponse a une question" G.Bachelard
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