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Re: [ICANN-EU] ... and other candidates
- To: "Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de>, icann-europe@fitug.de
- Subject: Re: [ICANN-EU] ... and other candidates
- From: Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 02:21:31 -0700
- Cc: Christoph <cweber@dialup.nacamar.de>
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At 22:48 22/08/2000 +0100, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
>those of you who are familiar with IETF talk may recall
>the very common phrase: "let the market decide" - meaning, we
>develop standards, but it's the commercial world that decide upon its
>success.
>This model, which, frankly, never convinced me, doesn't work
>anymore on the planet Internet.
note that some of us IETF people regard it as a swear phrase, amounting to
"we've been unable to reach a conclusion by rational means".
Several times the market has thrown the ball back in our teeth, saying in
effect "without a single standard, there is no market". Recently in the
competing solutions to the SNMPv2 debacle.
The market *always* decides. But not necessarily from the alternatives we
would like it to choose from.
Harald
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