At 04:43 PM 6/8/2002 -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote: >on 6/8/2002 4:00 PM Dave Crocker said the following: > > the process has continued beyond achieving adequate rough consensus, > > because the IETF has been heeding the concerns of a vocal minority of the > > community, where most of the concerns of that vocal minority concern > > technical issues that are outside of the scope of this working group. > >If that were true we wouldn't be up to rev 9 of the core draft. 9 revisions is not unusual. It is also demonstrably true that one can keep revising a spec forever. Some working groups are very good at it. On the other hand, they are not very good at shipping a spec and getting it used. It would be nice for the IDN effort not to suffer that fate. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dave@tribalwise.com> TribalWise, Inc. <http://www.tribalwise.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850