Date: 26 Jan 1997 02:50:46 -0000
Message-ID: <19970126025046.18568.qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu>
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: delegation

The proposal is to delegate new fields to vendors, while giving them
the option of later returning fields to the IETF for standardization.

Keith claimed that this proposal ``does more harm than good.''

However, he refuses to identify the alleged harms.

> I've already explained this. 

No, Keith, you haven't.

When I asked the first time, here's what you said:

> > > It hurts to deploy a feature that others might want to implement, without
> > > pubishing a specification for that feature and getting community review
> > > of that feature.

It seems obvious that the ability to deploy such features is already
present now, and is therefore not a harm done by the proposal.

Are you, in fact, claiming that the ability to deploy such features is a
harm of the proposal? Do you deny that the ability is present now?

Or are you claiming some other harm? If so, what is it?

> I'm not going to repeat it.

I'm sure your text wouldn't improve with repetition. Try answering the
question.

---Dan
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