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

[Dave Crocker]

On 8/30/2023 9:47 AM, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history wrote:
> Traditionally, protocols have never "originated" with the IETF - they 
> become standardized, and maybe standards through the RFC process, 
> under the IETF aegis.  Right back to the original DoD Protocol Suite 
> (did the IETF even exist when the DDN Protocol Handbook was first 
> printed?). 

While the Arpanet and initial Internet did not have an IETF 
administrative and authority structure, it did have an authority 
structure and it had a collaboration model very similar to the formal 
IETF one.  Hence my phrasing for the initial set of applications.

Referencing some later efforts, IPv6 originated in the IETF.  I believe 
the current BGP originated in the pre-IETF IETF-like environment.  SNMP 
arguably did not, as I recall. I believe SIP did.

d/

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