Re: RE: AD request / L2 Triggers Chapter Statement

Phil Neumiller writes:
> [Vern Schryver wrote]
> > I suppose instead you want your L2 triggers to reach through IP to
> > TCP to suggest that TCP do or stop doing or otherwise change.  Don't
> > you know that people have been doing such things for decades without
> > the let, leave, or hindrance of the IETF?
> 
> Yes, precisely WHY it needs to be STANDARDIZED!!! You are making
> my point for me.  Thanks!

Sure, I can see why having interface standards would be nice, but
then, why the IETF at all?  Internal implementation details really
don't seem to me to be the domain of folks engineering protocols for
the Internet itself.

This seems more appropriate for The Open Group or some other such OS
interfaces standardization body.

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