The rise and fall of the IETF?

[fanf]

http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=396

I can't help thinking of the IETF when reading this article about CORBA, and how its actual behaviour can deviate from its self-image. Some people refer to this disparagingly as the "IVTF" (V for vendor).

Comments

nah

[jmason.livejournal.com]

Having been involved -- very tangentially -- with the OMG and CORBA during the late '90s in Iona Technologies, I can assure you, the IETF has a _long_ way to go before it could be considered as vendor-driven as the OMG.

The IETF is a lot more open than the OMG was, I think.

[simont]

I can't believe they didn't title the article "OMG WTF".