17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 09:08 PM 4/9/96 -0400, Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com> wrote:
Of course that doesn't overcome the "technical problem" of getting the IETF to adopt that change in the protocols and getting a significant number of sites to adopt the new protocol. Even if you impose a substitutte on the IETF, it doesn't stop them from wandering off and creating their independent protocols and seeing whether the "official" or the "unofficial" get adopted.
What, you mean requiring that Americans on an international standards body bully the whole anarchy into accepting a technically inferior kluge because some American politicians want it? This ain't the UN... or even ISO. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215