On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Adrian Farrel <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, I've often wondered about that text...
> (3) Briefly describe the review of this document that was performed by
> the Document Shepherd. If this version of the document is not ready
> for publication, please explain why the document is being forwarded to
> the IESG.
I've always assumed it means "If you are forwarding this to the IESG without it
being ready for publication, you have a lot of explaining to do."
I'll confess to being equally mystified.
It made sense to me to request publication for a working group document that is being - maybe not ¨abandoned¨, but we've recently seen publication requested for a discussion draft that made people think, is no longer being maintained, and the working group wants to preserve it in its current state - like that.
And if it was a working group document that doesn't match what the working group now thinks, it would make sense to publish it in the Independent stream, but I guess it could make sense to publish some of these as an ¨IETF consensus = no¨ RFC.
But I'm still not getting ¨please publish this, but it's not ready for publication¨!
Spencer