Re: Handshakes

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

Ken, et al,

Humor notwithstanding, please note that I said "special", not "secret".

That was quite intentional, and intended to reflect the considerable 
process and culture documentation AND willingness to teach 
them.  (Yeah.  We are and do.)

d/


At 04:03 PM 12/21/00 -0600, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Ken Hornstein wrote:
> ...
> > >Being open does not mean that new arrivals are free from learning the
> > >special handshakes and the technical peculiarities of our work; they are
> >
> > Hm, my mistake, I guess.  I read on the IETF web page that the IETF didn't
> > have any secret handshakes; I guess I was wrong :-)
>
> Do you seriously imagine we are going to *teach* you the secret 
> handshakes? :-)
>
> But seriously - yes it's hard, and it's probably harder than when I first came
> to the IETF in 1992. It's the brightest collection of protocol designers
> on earth (I'm not one of them) - it's never going to be an easy club to join.

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