Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

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On 5/30/2013 9:58 AM, Melinda Shore wrote:
On 5/29/13 11:56 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote:
Yes, I'm sure.
Your turn now.
Are you sure?

No, not at all.


Let me try to help...

A process document is a normative statement of structure and sequence for a process. It is the organization's means of saying how things must be done. That 'must' might include degrees of freedom, of course, but they key point is that whatever it specifies has formal authority within the organization.

The current draft is quite explicitly not that.

The current draft is a kindly mentor, sitting around the bar, imparting sage advice for how something can be reasonably done, within the formal bounds of IETF rules and culture.

It's only 'force' is whatever credibility the individual reader choose to assign to the text, as is true for any "Informational" RFC...

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net




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