RE: Handshakes

["Liz Walter" <eawalter at email.arizona.edu>]

So there is an intentional culture of the internet???  I knew it...something
more than a :).  Is there truly documentation?
liz walter
Arizona State Museum
Support Systems Analyst

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dhc2 at dcrocker.net]
Sent: December 21, 2000 4:38 PM
To: Ken Hornstein
Cc: ietf at ietf.org
Subject: Re: Handshakes


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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