Open Standards vs IOPS etc [was Re: BGP community based IP filtering]

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Dorian R. Kim wrote:

But isn't what you described implementation details? I'm not sure if I see a standard to track in this... Perhaps a better venue to track something like this is an IEPG/RIPE/IOPS/etc.

Since you suggest IOPS as a body to track this issue, what do people think about IOPS as a pseudo-standards group. This also came up at the December IETF when Curtis suggested that draft-berkowitz-multirqmt document would not be necessary since IOPS had a draft on the same subject. The IDR WG seemed very sceptical of having a small closed body fill that role. How do people see IOPS meshing with NANOG and the operational side of IETF? thanks, -chris