Subject: [apps-discuss] The format problem, partially being solved later this year

From: Paul Hoffman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 10:14:59 -0700

<http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3645> (Warning: contains a few swear words.)

This project will be done outside the IETF using very outside-the-IETF procedures. There might be an informational RFC at the end saying what happened. But if you're interested in solving the format problem, you might want to follow Jason's blog and spend part of your November helping.

The project will be a great place for people who want to participate in making applications more useful in the future. It might turn out to be completely inconsequential, but I suspect that it will be at least as useful in the long term across the world as typical IETF Applications Area work, and has a good shot at being much more so. It will also be a good place for people who want to get involved but cannot handle the IETF process for whatever reason.

--Paul Hoffman