Re: "The IETF has difficulty solving complex problems" or alternatively Why IMS is a big fat ugly incomprehensiable protocol
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Re: "The IETF has difficulty solving complex problems" or alternatively Why IMS is a big fat ugly incomprehensiable protocol



--On 9. september 2005 13:55 -0500 Spencer Dawkins <spencer at mcsr-labs.org> wrote:

This was quite funny - both of you!

Of course, the first thing to do when you want to lose "complexity" is
"Stop adding to the problem" (as in "Put down the fork and push away from
the table...").


standards bloat solution:

anyone proposing a new feature has to propose two features to be retired.
anyone proposing a new standard has to propose two standards to be retired.

the proposal for retirement has to be accepted before the proposal for the new thing.

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