Olaf Kolkman wrote: > > Where things become difficult is at the point where the maintenance > of our standards need to be explained and questions about progression > on the standards ladder get asked. > > Personally I hope that RFC 6410 has the effect that we, as a community, > get serious about promoting our proposed standards, or obsolete them. > > I wonder how many standards got promoted after 6410 was published. One significant problem is that in the few working groups (in the security area) that I'm tracking, there appears to be a constituency behind every (formally provable) breakage and every non-trivial omission that makes it impossible to ever progress the documents beyong proposed. And the IESG seems OK with waiving the breakage when documents are recycled on proposed, rather than requiring WGs to fix it when problems are identified during LC of a bis document. -Martin