Re: IETF newbies/turnover, etc ..., etc ...

["Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" <rms46 at geocities.com>]

Hello, this is an "all in one" reply :^),

Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:

>} I am more concern on the future of "voluntarily" RFC writing,
>} and the regenerating process of IETF's Senior Citizens
>} (a.k.a. the old boys).

> I don't really see any relationship between these. RFCs have 
> always been open to publication of non-IETF material...

Thank you very much for your email. I thought that this issue/ 
thread was closed. Apparently, I am clueless..... 

As I wrote in my previous emails, I do not really care who the 
RFC editors are, and where the repository are. AFAIK, RFCs are 
just consensus's, at least they used to be. There is even no 
obligation that I have follow or deny them. So, why on earth, 
people are starting to ask for representations, recognition's, 
legal rights, etc., on a CONSENSUS? Isn't the ITU more suitable 
for all those bloody bureaucratic issues. The voluntarily I* 
model smells very academically. Was it suitable for commercial 
purpose from the beginning?

I am impressed in all those nice quantitative IETF attendance 
statistics. I am very enlighten, that there is no problem in 
the I* family!


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Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Our web site is graciously hosted by the Information Sciences
> Institute of the University of Southern California.

I would like to thank ISI/USC for that graciousness.

The street-value of web hosting is about $5 - $10 a month.
That is more than Indonesian Rp. 100.000; the current
monthly wage of domestic maid! Fortunately, those maids
do not have to lease IP addresses for $2500 a year ....
Who cares to make it cheaper, anyway?.

> To avoid wasting an IP address, it is one level down in 
> the directory on their server.

However, it is quite common nowadays, that an IP address is 
shared by many web hosts.

(in another mail):
> The following candidates were nominated for the POC ...

As "the primary goal of the IETF is to engineer the best 
communications protocols for the Internet (DEE3, 1998)", how 
is this related to being involved in public policy committees?


tabe,

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Rahmat M.Samik-Ibrahim VLSM-TJT http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/6825
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