Barry coments > Scott, I'm confused about one thing you say: >You seem to be saying that we have to carefully deliberate, consider > many factors, and be serious if we want to *change* the basic rules... > but that it's OK to *ignore* the basic rules and do whatever we want, > with no deliberation, consideration, or seriousness (this is what > we're doing now).
basically, yes - sometimes it is better to do nothing than to do something that will actually make no real difference > As I see it, the reason we need to do *something* here -- and I think > Russ's proposal is a good start for it -- is exactly that we're > largely ignoring those basic rules and making up a new system without > serious consideration. we have been ignoring some of these rules for a very long time - what makes now a good time to change them? Scott _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
