Re: a personal opinion on what to do about the sub-ip area

[Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU>]

Eric Rosen wrote:
> Keith> In  my  experience,  IESG   has  tremendous  breadth  -  considerably
> Keith> exceeding that of any single WG. 
>
> You must be  joking.  Or perhaps you  just mean that you tend  to agree with
> the IESG's program of trying to preserve the academic, ivory tower vision of
> the  Internet  against the  advance  of  the  barbarians (i.e.,  marketplace
> forces). 

On the "academic, ivory tower vision of the Internet" - that would be 
the part that actually works?

Or the market forces that brought us NATs, ATM, etc.?

Internet users live IN that ivory tower; marketplace forces made money 
on it too. It's more real than it may appear.

Joe