IETF Response to “LS on New IP, Shaping Future Network”
For the uninitiated, there&#x27;s a bit of a culture clash going on there in the background - not between the IETF and the ITU but rather between the Western groups that have brought up the internet and Chinese groups that are joining the tables now.<p>The IETF, ITU, IEEE and similar groups have their &quot;social etiquette&quot; and lots of unspoken agreements that people learn when starting to interact there, but the way these things work is not exactly culturally neutral.<p>This isn&#x27;t as much of an IETF shutdown of the ITU, rather an IETF shutdown of a group of Chinese people and companies.  The ITU isn&#x27;t blind to understanding that the Internet works thanks to the open IETF processes, but the ITU also has its procedures, and that&#x27;s how you get these proposals.<p>If you want to look at similar occurences inside the IETF, there&#x27;s for example TTZ:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;rfc8099&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;rfc8099&#x2F;</a><p>NB: this isn&#x27;t the Chinese being &quot;stupid&quot; or anything - it&#x27;s an impedance mismatch in culture.  It needs to be fixed by all involved.  (The particular &quot;LS on New IP&quot; proposal is obviously stupid, but - such proposals exist at, say, Cisco, too.  They just don&#x27;t make it out of there.  That&#x27;s the cultural difference.)