Re: Last Call: <draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt> (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

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I think this draft may do a little good, but mostly based on the
attention it brings to the issue.

If it is actually desired to make it easier to become a Proposed
Standard, it would be quite easy and straightforward to take real
steps that would make a real different. For example, to *prohibit* the
requirement of multiple interoperable implementations, a requirement
sometimes applied in an inconsistent and haphazard manner to
candidates for Proposed Standard.

On STD numbers, they were an interesting experiment but I believe, as
currently implemented, they have been proven to add only confusion and
bureaucracy. It would be quite easy and straightforward to have a
different document sequence for Standards. For success in this, it
would be essential to assure that they do *not* have RFC numbers.
History shows that, regardless of other labels, if a document has an
RFC #, most references to it will be via that number.

Thanks,
Donald
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Scott O. Bradner <sob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As I have stated before, I do not think that this proposal will achieve
> anything useful since it will not change anything related to the
> underlying causes of few Proposed Standards advancing on the standards
> track.  I see it as window dressing and, thus, a diversion from the
> technical work the IETF should focus on.
>
> If it were up to me, I would not approve this ID for publication as a
> RFC (of any type)
>
> Scott
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