On Jun 6, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Thierry Moreau wrote:
Blindly following the above ideology will result in less and less
RFCs,
hence less network standardization and/or standardization made by
entities other than the IETF.
Actually, what would result in fewer and fewer RFCs would be people
patenting the technology and asking for royalties on what they have
patented. It's true that there would be fewer and fewer RFCs if
more and more people did this, but that would be an economic result
of the activity of those people. Calling the functioning of an
ecosystem "ideology" is just a way of pretending that something you
are doing to destroy and replace that ecosystem is "fair."
It's possible that if you succeed in getting enough patents, some
other gruesome ecosystem will arise to replace the ecosystem that has
grown around the IETF. You could say that someone who would prefer
not to have to attempt to survive in such a polluted ecosystem is an
ideologue, but in so saying you are making yourself into an ideologue
as well. And then the question becomes, which ideology do we
prefer? So using the term "ideology" to describe a person's
position that disagrees with yours, while perhaps true, adds nothing
to the conversation.
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