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

[Dave Crocker]

On 9/2/2023 2:19 AM, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> I think there was a common thread in all of this work: people who were
> working on different aspects of the Internet and its constituent networks
> really wanted this system to work.

An aspect to this that seems to have distinguished it from some/many 
other technical specification bodies is that the desire was for the 
system to work /soon/.  Yesterday would have been nice, but tomorrow was 
acceptable.  Next year was not.

d/

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Dave Crocker
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