[ih] NIC, InterNIC, and Modelling Administration

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 07:27:31AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:

> Which is distinctly different than bottom-up in the IETF sense.  The  
> distinction isn't bottom-up vs. top-down, it's more one of  
> semi-collaborative, get it right ("rough consensus and running code" so  
> to speak) vs. vendor's battling out who's existing products will have to  
> be modified when the standard gets finalized.

I wish I felt that the line could be drawn quite that brightly, at
least in the current incarnation of the IETF.

A

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