On 1/4/2014 1:31 AM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
What is needed is that the specification do have a consequence analysis regarding expansion of use.
This statement probably should serve as a touchstone to the general topic of seeking "design considerations" for new specifications and for any "interesting" features or choices that are made.
(Whether such a discussion is part of the specification itself, part of a separate document, or merely a highlighted part of the working group archive, is a separate issue.)
However pressing groups to make it possible for these considerations to be easily reviewed by others could be at least as interesting as getting groups to do more/better privacy considerations...
This would not pre-determine the content of acceptable discussion -- such as demanding variable- or fixed-length values -- but it presses the group to be thoughtful enough to defend and document its choices ahead of the choices' being challenged.
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net