Re: [idn] report of the straw poll

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 12:10 PM -0400 5/25/01, J. William Semich wrote:
>Paul - The opinions of the tiny subset of 36 members of this WG do not
>represent a "vast" majority of anything whatsoever in the truly vast set of
>multi-millions of Internet users, systems and application developers, and
>connectivity providers.

So, what are you suggesting that we do instead? Because the IETF 
cannot ever get the opinions of even 1% of all Internet users as we 
develop new Internet protocols, are you saying we should just stop 
working on them right now? If so, who do you propose should work on 
Internet protocols? No other standards body polls any significant 
percentage of Internet users before creating protocols, and no 
private company does so before it creates its own proprietary 
protocols. Are you saying that no more protocols should be developed 
by anyone?

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium