-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/29/13 11:38 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: > I think this is one of the best discussions of what we're about > that I've seen anywhere, and I'm grateful to John for working this > through. > > One thing I'd like to take up further is this: > > On 5/29/13 9:23 AM, John C Klensin wrote: >> Similarly, we sometimes hear it argued that we should accept a >> specification for Proposed Standard unchanged because it has been >> extensively developed and reviewed elsewhere. That may be >> reasonable in some cases although I'd hope we wouldn't make it a >> common practice. But, if a specification adopted for Proposed >> Standard on that basis is then proposed for advancement to >> Internet Standard, I think the review should be comprehensive >> --perhaps even more comprehensive than the usual such review-- >> because the Internet Standard is unambiguously an IETF product >> and recommendation not that of the other body. > > I'd actually much prefer to see these go to informational, if > they're to be published. Otherwise I agree - if something's going > to be an IETF standard it needs to go through the IETF standards > development review and revision process, which is probably not what > the authors want. /me wonders if we need a separate series for informational documentation Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRpj3xAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pAiYP/jvIR0UI55/HBq4wUeGW4rWJ LXJLvEpxuKZL056F6cNFajksDlOVyL3oknHacc7OKPt+3d8ClXyQTzisAsjzxYdT XyQynTk0x0AmyFTvwDQ99HnPnpe+FJoBBdPvKM0KXvrGSDLQQviPvgBol/J/jBrz fBGq/sf/qDRbuORDyK30Dr9g3iDPvuWtz8umVGKZVH0NU0SuWcBx+UqZlMxYDh62 T4X/HZXWEHcooGviiTLfpMRi+wzWJc16OlRW9Ncq1DwgITFXAuDchp5xmXoP20Q2 DU6K+pqCGZpO/AU2XBH72pno7cwi92nZPatAVhvNnwuC3IrtwcACH/mEvf6LJZ7q B1ZmlMuhNA22Bu1lyLBzvJ/udwK84wtiCV64QGRnY5fzTxP3j8E00BjabjBMdkKM ctwNaYI9JplVKUiW2NdOBVlsDwVYKpEBXNcZGPP4BmaaO9BFhUnK21heyD+TNf+o gUC10MOkOLgByKN21EFMc8VTNettZLSM90MlOx06ToN/xaAL5Cgh0Qn18nvIisxg IMCfEdTSdsxlBNgD01X/6MNBTzb6gFVS7nRm74UX4R+HA9eTrBhB1BYx6y4PhVhY UOPVZkNuHngjth21TM3U62UZdIgT/AWZ/EvVFQFlTuB25vLXOV7tVfWbWa/FW4AT 6rgPVAQbyPvJZm4kSX7R =sjcp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----