Re: Stability of the Internet?

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

> > > business and in into the PSO business it is now chartered for.
> >
> >     True. And it should also get out of the operations biz,
> >     but that is another kettle of fish.
>
> The problem there is that there is no place for operations discussions,
> AFAICT. This may be an oversight on part of the ICANN conceptual framework.
> Most of the rest of us assumed (yeah, I know) that the IETF would handle
> that. Agreed, this may be in error. But, it is an error without a solution. 

        Protocols are not Operations.
        Operations fourms exist independent of IETF.
        (see the various *NOG's, EOF-LIST, APOP, et.al.)
        Protocol developers & Policy makers should listen
        to Operators.

        To subsume operations in the IETF is just as bad as 
        subsuming policy in the IETF. 


--bill