Brian, that's a good point. I changed that text to address Paul Kyzivat's comments, and I may have been too strong in that. I could: 1. Change it to "It may have been a mistake". 2. Remove that last sentence entirely. 3. Replace the sentence with something else that I'm happy to have you suggest. What do you think? Barry On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > This paragraph has been considerably changed: > >> In particular, working groups will sometimes write in policies such >> as Standards Action when they develop documents. Later, someone will >> come to the working group (or to the relevant community, if the >> working group has since closed) with a simple request to register a >> new item, and will be met with a feeling that it's not worth doing a >> Standards-Track RFC for something so trivial. In such cases, it was >> a mistake for the working group to have set the bar that high. > > I object strongly to the last sentence. The fact that a person feels > it isn't worth the trouble to develop a standards-track document for > their new idea does not imply that the WG was wrong. It may equally > be true that the "simple request" is not simple at all in its > consequences, and absolutely does require standards action, and the WG > made no mistake whatever. Please see RFC 6709 for a full discussion. > > Brian >