Re: Second Last Call: <draft-hammer-hostmeta-16.txt> (Web Host

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On 7/12/11 2:06 PM, Martin Rex wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>
>> On 6/21/11 11:08 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>> Generally, it's hard for me to be enthusiastic about this proposal,
>>> for a few reasons. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be published, but I
>>> do question the need for it to be Standards Track as a general
>>> mechanism.
>>
>> How about publishing it on the standards track but not as a general
>> mechanism (i.e., why not clarify when it is and is not appropriate)?
> 
> How about publishing as Informational?
> 
> RFC 2026 says:
> 
>    4.  THE INTERNET STANDARDS TRACK
> 
>    Specifications that are intended to become Internet Standards evolve
>    through a set of maturity levels known as the "standards track".
>    These maturity levels -- "Proposed Standard", "Draft Standard", and
>    "Standard" -- are defined and discussed in section 4.1.
> 
> If there is no strong consensus and commitment to work the document
> along the standards track up to full standard, then it shouldn't
> be on the standards track at all.

Who said there isn't strong consensus and commitment to work the
document along the standards track? The only statement I've seen is that
it's not a generic solution for all metadata problems.

> For documents where the only purpose of publishing it is only to obtain
> an rfc number for it, but otherwise just describe "this is how others
> have solved a particular problem before" and let vendors and implementors
> wiggle out interop, then Informational is quite appropriate.

I see no reason to make those assumptions here.

Peter

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