> The IETF is run by volunteers. They volunteer because they find > designing protocols to be fun. For the most part, operators are not > entertained by designing network protocols. So, for the most part they > don't partiticpate.
Randy Bush, "Editorial zone: Into the Future with the Internet Vendor Task Force: a very curmudgeonly view, or testing spaghetti," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 35 Issue 5, October 2005. http://archive.psg.com/051000.ccr-ivtf.html
