[opendtv] Re: Beyond transport
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:06:57 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>> what APPLICATIONS did the IETF have to develop and standardize?
>
> All of the above.
> All of the above were standardized, AFTER the marketplace started
> to offer solutions, customers responded by embracing them, and
> industry practice was codified into standards.
Again, you guess/blurt out something without first informing yourself. I would
spend more time at this if I thought it would stick. But it won't, until you
invest some effort on your own, Craig. Things are simply not as you think they
are.
As an aside, "transport" is not enough. It takes mechanisms way beyong just
"transport" to make these applications work.
Now sure, in some cases, just as in the ATSC process, the people working on the
intial mechanisms had ideas going in. That's to be expected. These individuals
have an interest in the topic, after all. But it's simply false to claim that
the process was sort of a haphazard libertarian ideal where no one laid down
the framework. Do you know how many authors there were in the initial RFCs for
e-mail? Find out. It wasn't an army of people, Craig, and there weren't a ton
of "marketplace solutions" to pick from.
Go to the IETF web site, and search through the RFCs for e-mail. Notice how
things begin and how they evolve.
Bert
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