Re: Welcoming newcomers

[Bill Manning <bmanning at zed.isi.edu>]

% Bill:  Could you clarify 2 things, if you know the answers to either?
% 
% 				Valdis Kletnieks

	I was not present so I could not clarify.  It does seem pretty
	clear that these days, "bad-ideas" are often floated and experimented 
	with in other venues and only after vetting are brought to the IETF
	for standards approval/rubber stamping.  It used to be that the
	IETF was the venue for exploring "bad-ideas". PreIETF oldtimers
	have noted that what was a bad idea a decade ago may be todays
	breakthrough. Hence tossing an idea once should not relegate it
	to limbo in perpetuity. (see John Klensins concept of using
	DNS classes. Last decade, a bad idea... now, a plausable avenue
	of exploration!)

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--bill