On Sep 6, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On 2011-09-07 09:35, Ted Hardie wrote: > ... >> My personal opinion for some time has been that we ought to recognize that >> the previous PS moved into "WG draft" years ago and that anything named an >> RFC should be recognized as something that market will consider a standard. > > And who raised the bar? It wasn't the IESG, it was the market, and more > specifically the product managers and IT managers who adopted RFC conformance > as their criterion. > > I'm a bit fed up with the IESG being blamed for this, rather than being > congratulated on adapting to it. +1. IESG has been doing its job. More broadly, no system of rules governing decision-making can work well in the absence of (a) some flexibility in the interpretation in the rules; and (b) competent, conscientious, well-intended people who will interpret those rules in such a way as to get appropriate and useful results. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf