> A problem here is that without a civics/ethics foundation contemporary engineers may not understand the deeper nature of a protocol versus a black-box platfor

> A problem here is that without a civics/ethics foundation contemporary engineers may not understand the deeper nature of a protocol versus a black-box platform. IETF may be moving into a new educational role to explain why a protocol is more desirable. There is the Evolvability, Deployability, & Maintainability [0] working group that has some good documents that relate to that. [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/program/edm/about/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/program/edm/about/