At 1:05 PM -0400 3/29/07, Sam Hartman wrote: >The problem is that this work is outside the charter of the TLS >working group. So, I don't think asking them to take on the document >would be appropriate. >I also don't think rechartering TLS for this purpose would be appropriate. It is actually fairly common for working groups to provide advice to the community on work that is related to their charter and not on it. If you do not wish to amend the TLS charter, you can make a positive evaluation by TLS a necessary step before you agree to sponsor this document; since that would not make the draft a work product of the working group, I don't think that would require a full re-charter. A re-charter would allow you, obviously, to move change control into the WG and allow competing proposals to be put forward. That might be useful at this point, but it also doesn't seem required. Basically, I think this has moved to the stage where evaluation by a community of developers and potential licensees is the best way forward. The review by the IETF community as a whole does not seem to be providing this. You can, of course, just drop it as a result. But if you are concerned to get a more realistic up/down evaluation, then having TLS do the evaluation or chartering some WG to do the work seem to be the obvious choices. Ted _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf