Hi Jari, At 03:33 10-11-2008, Jari Arkko wrote:
The issue is that mere conflict with work in a WG is not a sufficient reason to recommend against publishing. The IESG needs to make a judgment call that such publication would actually be harmful to the standardization process in the WG. For instance, in a recent case we approved an independent publication even if the document was clearly in the domain of a WG because we felt the circumstances supported it. You have to consider a number of aspects, where the WG is in its process, whether the particular submission is likely to confuse the process, etc.
I see your point. I do expect the IESG to make a judgement call and not turn down a work merely because it may have some relation to the work being carried out in a Working Group. Although I don't like the word "harmful", I see the rationale for that word in the text.
I don't care so much what words we use to say this, but I would like to see that the ability to make this judgment call is retained. This is why I like the current text more than the proposed one above.
I agree with you. Regards, -sm _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf