Re: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2 months?

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On Dec 2, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote:

John C Klensin wrote:

Of course, YMMD and, in particular, you might consider this
potential problem to be important enough to have other criteria.

The "enhanced NOOP" discussion on the SMTP list just reminded me
that we're talking about protecting IANA, RFC editor, and Trust
from legal enforcement.

 Frank

I'm late getting into this discussion, but also have the advantages of seeing arguments on all side at once :-)

it seems to me that the final decision on this issue would be a tradeoff in a multi-dimension space:
- how much gain vendors/users may get from publishing an RFC at time=T
  vs at (T + 2 months)
in particular if the publication is tagged with some provisional clause.
- how strong is the desire of wanting the published RFCs to be stable
(i.e. minimizing the chances of reclassification, with an understanding
   that we cannot completely eliminate the chance)
- As pointed out above, what may be the legal complication, if there is any,
  in handling appeals against a published RFC, and remedy the situation
  when an appeal succeeds.

I too first thought that the process ought to be optimized for the majority cases. I now realized that the optimization should be based on the weighted percentages:

   (% of no-appeal cases) X (gains from publishing 2-month earlier)

versus

   (% of appeal cases) X (chance of an appeal succeeded)
                       X (cost from any potential legal complications
                          and remedy)
The remedy here may also include the cost to those people who acted on a published RFC in its first 2 months.

so the question to me is really: can we quantify the values of those weight factors?
(as an academic I dont have a lot clue here)

Lixia

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