On 5/30/13, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > difficult problems arise when someone comes to us with a spec > that might be ok but isn't how we would do it and tries to say > "you can have this and we will turn over change control as long > as you don't really want to make any changes". When a statement > equivalent to that is justified on the basis of either being in > a hurry or not invalidating existing implementations, we find > ourselves in the middle of the contradiction between "consensus > of industry practice" and "best engineering solution" for > standardization. If the standards proposed are reviewed well I don't think there will be contradiction, I don't recommending always sticking to best engineering solutions, because it is difficult to guarantee best solutions in present/future (best practices ok). For industry request work, IMO its better that our standards get into between *best engineering practices* and *good engineering practices*, that will not contradict with *consensus* and *industry practices*. AB