Re: prohibiting RFC publication

[Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>]

At 02:38 AM 4/9/00 +0100, Martin J.G. Williams wrote:
> As far as i'm concerned (IMHO) if the standards bodies were to be driven 
> by the
> vendors, then they would become no more
> than sanitised purveyors of de facto standards, and je jure standards would be
> relegated to being nothing more than "misty-eyed" memories.

Are you saying that IETF specifications are de jure standards? If so, don't 
tell the State Department, they don't know that :^)

IETF Specifications are indeed de facto standards - they are standards in 
part because the community calls them such, but mostly because the 
community implements them and uses them.

I think what you meant to say is that they would be nothing more than 
purveyors of the proprietary protocols that vendors chose to make semi-public.