Re: [INDEP] Re: [IAOC] Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

> > What you say might have been true up until say the mid 1980s, but
> > today, it's hard to defend that statement.  For many years the vast
> > majority of RFCs have been produced by IETF either from working groups
> > or individual submissions.
> 
> That vast number does not establish the credibility of the series; the
> original ones do. 

disagree.  the value of the RFC series is that most of the important
technical specifications for the Internet (below the apps layer,
anyway) can be found there.  if the RFC series only contained the 
original TCP, UDP, and IP specs, those documents would still be 
valuable, but the series would not be nearly as valuable as it is today.

> Congestion control originated in a Sigcomm paper, not
> the IETF. At the end of the day, it is the IETF that is, IMO, expendable.

at the end of the day, we will all be dust, and everything we have
produced will have been diffused to the point that those remaining
will be unable to reliably tell who did what.   to the extent our lives
have any value, it's probably not enhanced by our expending energy
trying to pin down such things.

Keith

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