Re: letting IETF build on top of Open Source technology

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Hi Brian,

On 10/30/17 4:48 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
>>  1.  Is it stable, mature, and immutable (except for errata)?
> Those are not well known characteristics of open source projects.
> Even if we tie a reference down to a very specific version,
> I'm unclear how that can truly act as a stable reference. It may
> be stable in a mathematical sense, but it may also be seven years
> behind deployed reality.

That's why point 4 is important:  Is it intended as a public interface? 
If the intent isn't there then this isn't the right mechanism.   We may
want to broaden out that intent statement to be a bit more explicit
about intent of stability.

Eliot

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