On Aug 8, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John C Klensin [mailto:john-ietf@xxxxxxx] >> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 9:19 AM >> To: Murray S. Kucherawy; ietf@xxxxxxxx >> Subject: RE: I-D Working groups and mailing list >> >> (4) Others (probably a partially overlapping group with (3)) >> just find more rules and requirements for more boilerplate >> undesirable. They would (at least mostly) be happy if lots of >> off-list notes went to authors of I-Ds for which the discussion >> forum wasn't clear, asking them about the discussion forum and >> recommending that it be included in the next draft. That might >> actually encourage discussion and would be as, or more, >> effective at retraining authors than more rules. > > This is my preference. If the author(s) don't include a "discuss this here" section, then they're inviting direct comments, and maybe that's what they prefer. If not, they will quickly learn to either find or create a forum, even if that's just ietf@xxxxxxxx, and mention such in the draft. +1 Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf