On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
1. The internet works: success
2. Few specifications mature to Internet Standard: failure
Since the current rules prevented a lot of progressing of specifications but
at the same time there doesn't seem to be a negative effect on the operation
of the internet, it looks like these rules don't accomplish anything. So get
rid of them. All of them. The IESG is full of smart people who are more than
competent enough to decide on the fate of a document without a long list of
rules to follow in doing this. When they get it wrong once in a blue moon,
the last call and appeal processes should take care of that.
At least the way I heard in the plenary, people underlined that most
folks make little difference between maturity levels. So the above
model wouldn't probably buy us much but instead would make the IESG
make do more work. The more important feature seems to be revision
based on implementation, interoperability and deployment experience
which is demonstrated with an implementation/interoperability report.
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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