----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Farrell" <stephen.farrell@xxxxxxxxx> To: <mrex@xxxxxxx> Cc: "John C Klensin" <john-ietf@xxxxxxx>; "Thomas Narten" <narten@xxxxxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx>; <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:47 PM > > Hi Martin, > > On 01/25/2013 09:36 PM, Martin Rex wrote: > > I don't know about the last time it happened, but I know about > > one time in Nov-2009 in the TLS WG (now rfc5746). > > I recall that and agree with the sequence of events you > describe, but I'm not sure that that situation is > relevant when considering this draft, for two reasons: Sounds a bit like 'don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up:-)' The point that Thomas made and John endorsed is that when we want to speed things up, our current procedures allow us to do just that. We do not need a formal process (more complications, more work). And as John pointed out, having two independent Last Call discussions, on two different lists, on communities that may have little overlap, is not the way, IMO, to establish a clear consensus. Tom Petch > - First, that was the IETF in security-incident-handling > mode, and that's just different from normal process for > us, whether fast-tracked or not. Its in the nature of things > that the vast majority of security incidents don't > directly affect IETF protocols so as to require a > backwards incompatible change. So I think that was a > highly unusual case. (And let's hope things stay that > way.) > > - Second, there was significant controversy within the > WG before the last calls, (with many hundreds of mails;-) > so a set of WG chairs that chose to try a fast-track > experiment in such circumstances would be crazy basically. > (Remember, we're only talking about an experiment here.) > > As for Eliot's question, I don't recall any case when > a WG skipped WGLC. Even if its not part of 2026, right > now it's a de-facto but mandatory part of the process > as far as I can see. I'd be interested if there are cases > where WGLC was skipped, esp. if its been regularly done. > > S. > >