[ih] IETF relevance (was Memories of Flag Day?)

[John Levine]

It appears that Dave Crocker via Internet-history <dcrocker at bbiw.net> said:
>I'm sure there are examples, but I can't think of an application 
>protocol that was originated in the IETF over, say, the last 25 years, 
>that has seen widespread success.

One could argue that DKIM originated in the IETF. It had two
predecessors, DomainKeys and IIM. The development process more or less
involved adding the bad ideas from IIM into DomainKeys, then taking
them back out.

It took several tries to get usable DNSSEC, with the version we
use now published in 2005.  But you're right, the stuff people use
is mostly imported from outside.