Howdy, The attached draft is part of the discussion Russ started up with draft-housley-two-maturity-levels. It is compatible with, but does not require a reduction in maturity levels. If you would like to send me comments privately, I welcome them; I suppose further public discussion would take place here. regards, Ted Hardie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <Internet-Drafts@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:00 PM Subject: I-D Action:draft-hardie-advance-mechanics-00.txt To: i-d-announce@xxxxxxxx A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Proposed mechanics for document advancement Author(s) : T. Hardie Filename : draft-hardie-advance-mechanics-00.txt Pages : 6 Date : 2010-09-16 The IETF has maintained a three-stage standards track for some time, with basic mechanics set out in RFC 2026 [RFC2026]. The mechanics as described, however, are not currently used in practice and advancement along the standards track is both unusual and more difficult than many IETF participants find reasonable. This document proposes an update to those mechanics, in the interest of improving the overall functioning of the IETF. It is compatible with, but does not require, a move to a two-stage standards track. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hardie-advance-mechanics-00.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf