On Wed, 25 May 2011, Richard Elling wrote:
The method the IETF uses seems to be particularly immune to vendor
interference. Vendors who want to participate in defining an interoperable
standard can achieve substantial success. Vendors who only want their own way
encounter deafening silence and isolation.
Actually, this doesn't always work. There have been attempts to stack the deck
and force votes at IETF. One memorable meeting was more of a flashmob than a
standards meeting :-)
I totally agree. In fact a large fraction of efforts at the IETF
fail, and failure can be a good thing.
The key stakeholders and contributors of ZFS code are represented in the ZFS
Working
Group. This is very similar to working groups in other standards bodies and
organizations.
The error in the statement above is that most key stakeholders are not
represented. I consider myself to be a key stakeholder in that I have
entrusted my precious data to zfs. Stakeholder is not necessarily the
same as a famous zfs software developer or someone who specifically
invests money in a company doing zfs development. We are stakeholders
too!
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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