mnot’s blog: RFC8890: The Internet is for End Users

The IETF is a very unique group, and this article is both illuminating of this RFC, but also of the way the group operates in general.

So at its heart, The Internet is for End Users is a call for IETF participants to stop pretending that they can ignore the non-technical consequences of their decisions, a call for broader consultation when making them, and one for continued focus on the end user. Ultimately, end user impact is as least as important as the technical considerations of a proposal, and judging that impact requires a more serious effort to understand and incorporate other non-technical views.

This seems like something that should be implicit to these discussions.