Andy,
quick question, if I may:
Le 2021-04-27 à 17:06, Andrew G. Malis a écrit :
Keith,
I disagree. WGs have charters, which result in RFCs. During that
process, they have consensus-based working drafts that are refined to
meet their charter goals. That's an "adopted" draft. But it doesn't have
to be based on a single individual draft, a working draft can be the
result of merging earlier individual drafts, or can even originate as a
WG draft without a preceding individual draft or drafts. But yes,
working drafts do reflect WG consensus, and they have formal standing as
such.
At which point in time to do they reflect WG consensus, according to you?
As examples to illustrate my ask: From day 1 or only at "Publication
Requested" time, or some other time, if any specific one?
-m
Cheers,
Andy
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:27 AM Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 4/27/21 10:17 AM, Salz, Rich wrote:
There was also a suggestion to add something to the boilerplate text of individual I-Ds along the lines of "anyone can submit an I-D; they have no formal standing until they are adopted by a group in the IETF or IRTF". Would that provide additional clarification?
Oh yes, PLEASE!
concur. Except get rid of the "adopted" bit, because even assuming
that "adoption" of a draft by a WG is useful, it doesn't imply any
kind of broad support from the organization. Just say that the
existence of a draft does not mean it has any formal standing with
IETF or any other organization. Documents with formal standing in
IETF are published as RFCs.
Keith
