Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-30 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
Greg Minshall wrote: i think there are two issues. one is that when I-Ds were created, there was some controversy, mainly revolving around the notion that we already had a forum for people putting out ideas (known as RFCs), and that the fact that the public concept of RFC was different

Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-07-20 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
g'day, Masataka Ohta wrote: . . . If IETF makes it clear that AOL is not an ISP, it will commercially motivate AOL to be an ISP. Not to be unkind, since the IETF has done some good work, but the above statement is incorrect. If you'd written "If AOL perceives that the market would punish

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-10 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
g'day, Tripp Lilley wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Peter Deutsch in Mountain View wrote: readily accessible. I still see value in having documents come out as "Request For Comments" in the traditional sense, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to find ways to better distingui

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-09 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
g'day, Dave Crocker wrote: . . . It strikes me that it would be much, much more productive to fire up a working group focused on this topic, since we have known of the application level need for about 12 years, if not longer. Which raises the interesting question as to what the

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-0

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
Hi Patrik, Patrik Fältström wrote: At 17.29 -0700 2000-04-07, Peter Deutsch wrote: LD is intended to sit in front of a cluster of cache engines containing similar data, performing automatic distribution of incoming requests among the multiple caches. It does this by intercepting the

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
g'day, Keith Moore wrote: Peter, I think that by now I've made my points and defended them adequately and that there is little more to be acheived by continuing a public, and largely personal, point-by-point argument. If you want to continue this in private mail I'll consider it. Okay,

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
Keith Moore wrote: The industry and their customers have already decided against you on this one. Industry people love to make such claims. They're just marketing BS. The Internet isn't in final form yet and I don't expect it to stabilize for at least another decade. There's still

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
g'day, Lloyd Wood wrote: Well, look at the list of signatories to the Draft in question. technical merits, please. I was not arguing for the merits of the technology in question based upon who signed it. In fact, I haven't tried to address the technical merits of the specific document at