Dear colleagues, I have read draft-crocker-id-adoption-05. I'm not opposed to publication, though I confess I'm a little uneasy with it. This is yet another process document that, no matter how much the text protests otherwise, will probably be used as a club in some future contentious WG discussion to try to beat opponents into submission. If we want to publish this sort of thing, however, this document is probably fine. I have one small issue. In section 5.2, there is this: a single, strong specification. The detailed discussions to merge are better held in a design team than amidst the dynamics of an open working group mailing list. I think it would be better to alter that to "…to merge are often better held…". I agree that for practical purposes things don't always need to be thrashed out on the general list, but sometimes the wider debate (or the very small active population of a WG) means that a design team is a bad choice, and I don't want this text to give people an excuse to try to take things "into the back room" when they shouldn't. I'll send some nits to the author directly. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx