On 1/1/2014 12:09 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
I disagree. I think if we constantly desist in taking any action
because there are inevitably a number of nay-sayers, then we've
lost. And in this particular case, a BCP is exactly the right thing.
He did not say take no action. He suggested publishing it, but without
standards status. (bcp is standards status.)
It is clear from the list discussion that there is no broad, shared
understanding of how this policy statement will be applied. In other
words, we do not have rough consensus about what the document /means/.
Having rough consensus about a basic emotion about the social aspects of
the topic is not enough.
As a rule, the IETF tends to avoid standardizing specifications that it
knows it does not understand.
d/
ps. My own suggestion is Experimental. It demonstrates IETF
encouragement for developing exactly the understanding we currently lack.
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net