Joel M. Halpern wrote:
Wed try very hard to make it clear to folks that there is a difference between standards track documents and non-standards track documents. Independent Stream documents are not standards track documents.
And I agree that there is an issue of the community not distinguishing among standards-track, informational, and experimental documents. But that's a separable problem that is, in my opinion, of much smaller consequence.
I assert that the distinction between these classes of documents is much, much smaller than the distinction between IETF-reviewed documents and independent stream documents.
Remember also that in terms of the text being a recommendation, this is not a change in practice. This is the practice we have had for more than the last 15 years. If, for Independent Submissions, it is that big a problem, I would expect ot have heard of it.
Perhaps I'm just unclear on the frequency of independent submissions -- but can you find me an RFC that came from a source other than the IETF that does not include a prominent note indicating that fact?
I'm under the distinct impression that historical practice tagged all (or almost all) such documents with a prominent note. The proposed procedure tries to make this an extreme exception, not the norm.
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