> Design by committee is how IETF works If the IETF is design by committee, almost any collaboratively developed standard could be called designed by committee

> Design by committee is how IETF works If the IETF is design by committee, almost any collaboratively developed standard could be called designed by committee. And I'm rather confident in assuming you haven't seen ITU or IEEE in action, or you'd be singing angel's choir praises on the IETF process… (The IETF really does not have a committee process by any reasonable definition.)