Brian, A small clarification below on the reference to the interpretation problems related to 3777: On 3/6/2008 4:10 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Dave, > > On 2008-03-07 12:34, Dave Crocker wrote: >> Sam Hartman wrote: >>> Making it a BCP will make the interpretation problem worse not better. >> >> How? > > To some extent that depends on how carefully the putative BCP > is crafted, with "should" and when to disregard "should" being > very precise. What I think we've seen, with 2026 over the years, > and apparently this year with 3777, is that it's virtually I am not sure whether you have made it to the appendix in my report, but the disagreements in interpretation of 3777 have a history (see Page 37). The only thing special about the current nomcom is that we chose to bring it to the community's attention. In Ralph's case, he brought it to the IESG and IAB's attention in March 2006. thanks, Lakshminath Nomcom 2007-8 Chair > impossible to write precise procedural text that deals with > completely unexpected circumstances. Yet if the text has the > force of a BCP, it becomes very hard to interpret it flexibly > when flexibility is clearly needed. I don't know if that > is Sam's point, of course. > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > IETF mailing list > IETF@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf