On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:17:17PM +0200, Eric Rosen wrote: > Generally, the community (i.e., the folks doing the work in the various > areas) has never even heard about these proposed requirements until after a > BCP appears, at which time they are told that the BCP "has community > consensus". Perhaps you're familiar with Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's > Guide to the Galaxy". To paraphrase, "but the plan for the destruction of > earth was clearly posted in the planning department on alpha centauri, it's > not our fault you didn't see it". There is a defined IETF review process and we just go through it and from what I can tell the process works in making people comment on the draft that was proposed to become a BCP. While comments on the content of the draft are fine, I find comments on the process pretty much out of scope. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf