- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:11:00 +0100 (BST)
- To: Mohsen BANAN-Public <public@MOHSEN.BANAN.1.BYNAME.NET>
- cc: discuss@apps.ietf.org, ietf-mmms@imc.org, ietf@ietf.org, interest@lists.leapforum.org, interest@lists.emsd.org, interest@lists.esro.org
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Mohsen BANAN-Public wrote: > The beauty of the Internet End-to-End model is that people don't have > to wait for the IETF to create a working group, a charter, a chair, > , blessings, .... to move forward. well, sure, if you don't mind moving forward all by yourself. > Remember the web (http, ...)? > What was IETF's role in Internet's main modern application? standardising TCP and MIME. Standardising HTTP (RFC2616 and earlier.) Quite a lot, even if you think the web's just a convergence of developments from SGML to GIF. L. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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