[liberationtech] Announcing Scramble.io

[Bill Woodcock]

On Aug 23, 2013, at 7:12 PM, Ali-Reza Anghaie <ali at packetknife.com> wrote:
> - (To everyone) Why is there almost never a discussion on RFCs and
> talking something down the pathway of "what would it take to make a
> standard out of this"?

Because, at this point, very few useful standards make it through the IETF.  There are things for which the IETF is completely appropriate.  VoIP and jabber and so forth work pretty well in the IETF, for a variety of reasons.  But something like this, which is much more about the application layer, needs to be implemented first, get a base of users and testers and contributors, and then if there's something innovative about it down at the protocol layer, that can be run through the IETF after-the-fact.

                                -Bill