>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Andrew> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 01:20:23PM -0700, SM wrote:
>> It would be difficult to get buy-in if the document is not
>> published as a RFC.
Andrew> Supppse we actually have the following problems:
Andrew> 1. People think that it's too hard to get to PS.
Andrew> (Never mind the competing anecdotes. Let's just suppose
Andrew> this is true.)
Andrew> 2. People think that PS actually ought to mean
Andrew> "Proposed" and not "Permanent". (i.e. people want a sort of
Andrew> immature-ish level for standards so that it's possible to
Andrew> build and deploy something interoperable without first
Andrew> proving that it will never need to change.)
Andrew> 3. We want things to move along and be Internet
Andrew> STANDARDs.
Andrew> 4. Most of the world thinks "RFC" == "Internet
Andrew> Standard".
Andrew> If all of those things are right and we're actually trying
Andrew> to solve them all, then it seems to me that the answer is
Andrew> indeed to move to _n_ maturity levels of RFC, where _n_ < 3
Andrew> (I propose 1), but that we introduce some new document
Andrew> series (call them TRFC, for "Tentative Request For Comment",
Andrew> or whatever) that is the first step. Then we get past the
Andrew> thing that people are optimizing for ("everything stays as
Andrew> Proposed Standard once it gets published") by simply
Andrew> eliminating that issue permanently.
I think this is a workable idea.
But, instead of calling things TRFCXXXX, let's do something less
glamorous and give it hash... maybe based upon the sha1 of the document
or something. TRFC-ipsec-4d66-1618-00bbd99b.txt :-)
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