Ietf Quotes

The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people.

When the IETF started 20 years ago, I was not paying close attention to networking issues, but shortly after that I did get involved.

(IETF members differ in their views on the impact of problems with RRP.) It`s a very serious threat, ... My two main concerns about RRP are that (firstly) there is a privacy exposure problem. Anybody can get in that database and get all kinds of information about the domain-name holder. The other concern is domain-name slamming. They just don`t have any real good security on that protocol.

AOL will feel pressure to implement whatever standard the IETF develops, ... there`s so much more potential for instant messaging in the wireless world that AOL`s installed base doesn`t matter that much.