On 5/20/2024 1:28 PM, Robert Raszuk wrote:
The requirement to have two implementations before submitting to IESG (not some "commitment to implement" before taking over a work) may be coming from two different reasons:
It is not reasonable that anyone should have to guess at the reasons for such an onerous and unusual requirement,
And, again, it is unprecedented to have an umbrella wg carry such an onerous requirement.
On 5/20/2024 12:56 PM, Joel Halpern wrote:
I was reacting to the assertion that the IETF doesn't do that.
I believe the 'that' that I covered is fundamentally different from the 'that' that IDR exemplifies.
Since you think otherwise, please explain how they are the same or even related.
The IETF does sometimes have such requirements.
I covered that in my original note and in my response to you. The case of mailmaint is different in the ways I detailed.
Whether it should have it in the email case, and whether it should be in the charter or somewhere else if it is appropriate, is not something I have enough information on which to have an informed opinion.
And yet... d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social
