<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr" target="_blank">bortzmeyer@nic.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:47:41AM -0500,<br>
Phillip Hallam-Baker <<a href="mailto:phill@hallambaker.com">phill@hallambaker.com</a>> wrote<br>
<span class=""> a message of 335 lines which said:<br>
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> Now you might think that given that I work for a company that has<br>
> one of the public resolvers you would like to see change and you are<br>
> the person asking me for the favor, that maybe you might want to<br>
> take your own advice.<br>
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</span>One of the authors of RFC 7858 works for the same company. So this<br>
argument from authority "I work for V. therefore everyone should agree<br>
with me" is debatable.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">None of us speaks for our employers. and certainly not when we are saying anything that might be taken as a commitment to deploy a new product or service.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">However, over the years, there are many, many instances in which people employed by company X worked on a spec that was not subsequently deployed at company X.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I have never ever encountered a situation in which an employee of company X has said that 'Y is a show stopper issue for us, we cannot deploy unless it is addressed' and company Y has subsequently deployed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Situations in which Y is addressed by passage of time and Moore's law do not count.</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>