10 Jul
2011
10 Jul
'11
6:29 p.m.
The IETF is run by volunteers. They volunteer because they find designing protocols to be fun. For the most part, operators are not entertained by designing network protocols. So, for the most part they don't partiticpate.
Randy Bush, "Editorial zone: Into the Future with the Internet Vendor Task Force: a very curmudgeonly view, or testing spaghetti," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 35 Issue 5, October 2005. http://archive.psg.com/051000.ccr-ivtf.html