Why the IETF Isn't Working 103
An anonymous reader writes "Vidya Narayanan spent seven years working on the Internet Engineering Task Force, and was nominated for the Internet Architecture Board. But she declined the nomination and left the IETF because standards bodies are not able to keep up with the rapid pace of tech development. She says, '[W]hile the pace at which standards are written hasn't changed in many years, the pace at which the real world adopts software has become orders of magnitude faster. Standards, unfortunately, have become the playground for hashing out conflicts and carrying out silo-ed agendas and as a result, have suffered a drastic degradation. ... Running code and rough consensus, the motto of the IETF, used to be realizable at some point. Nowadays, it is as though Margaret Thatcher's words, "consensus is the lack of leadership" have come to life. In the name of consensus, we debate frivolous details forever. In the name of patents, we never finish. One recent case in point is the long and painful codec battles in the WebRTC working group.'"
Internet is too mature now! (Score:3, Funny)
We want our Wild Wild Web back, dammit!
And another thing. IT is too mature now! Let's take out all the error recovery code, and if there's an error, we'll have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, "Hey, reboot it!"
Margeret Thatcher? (Score:1, Funny)
[i]"...Nowadays, it is as though Margaret Thatcher's words, "consensus is the lack of leadership" have come to life..."[/i]
That can't be true! Margaret Thatcher was the most evil woman who has ever lived! NOTHING she said could possibly be true...
Re:Margeret Thatcher? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:IETF kills projects (Score:2, Funny)