On 10/18/2012 6:45 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
As I said earlier, I can live with almost anything if it is correct and allows us to move forward. I am, however, getting more concerned about the consequences to the virtual 5322bis and its future instantiation if we go down these paths. I would really not like to be the relevant AD (or Pete-bis) trying to defend leaving the explanation and reference out of 5322bis given that they were important enough to include in this document and, if the explanation and reference go into 5322bis, why a large series of other references and explanations should not be included. I'd be a tad happier if this explanatory stuff when into an appendix rather than the text.
The job of the current draft is to be sufficient to its purpose. Its purpose is to augment a base document with a specific revision.
An update segment document does not typically have the purpose of including extensive annotations for possible later use, attempting to anticipate or hypothesize later editing efforts, to revise the base document.
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net