--On Thursday, June 28, 2018 01:39 +0000 Lloyd Wood <eclipticplane2002=40yahoo.co.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > on a related note, we need an established April Fools > workgroup with a published charter and clear path for draft > adoption and RFC publication. > > > jokes are funnier once they've been workshopped... Lloyd, I disagree. I think most jokes, especially the sort of complex ones that have tended to appear in the April 1 subseries of the RFC Series, are funnier if they come as a surprise and have not first been tuned and kicked into submission if not to death. However, I suggest an experiment. Why don't you write and propose an April 1 RFC that describes, in detail, what you think the vetting and evaluation process for those RFCs should be. For example, perhaps there should be a committee with members chosen by the Nomcom, the IAB, the IESG, the Board of the new IASA LLC, and, if they can reach consensus, a committee of five religious leaders from as many different religions chosen by the IAB Chair and the G7 (with or without Russia)? I would presume that such a document would also describe, in detail, the limits of political correctness or incorrectness allowed in such RFCs and whether puns or other wordplay that depend on languages other than English are acceptable and under what conditions. best, john
