On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:08 AM Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/4/19 10:05 AM, Job Snijders wrote:
> 3) Where EDs can really shine is that they provide stable URLs with a
> short identifier (like the RFCs and BCPs) that can be referenced.
>
> I'm interested to see if we can develop a document type that can
> reflects a working group's understanding of a certain problem spaces
> (like tls settings, cyphers, bgp filters), has received review from
> subject matter experts (the working group participants), the WG chairs
> and perhaps the AD. If these people agree that something is worthwhile
> publishing on the stable URL; why not?
Because it could easily have the extremely undesirable effect of
promoting premature deployment.
It seems to me that this is the point of contention, namely that in certain parts of the industry, there is a strong feeling that there is a lot of value in widespread deployment of pre-standard protocols as long as the versioning is done correctly, and so we do in fact want to promote deployment.
-Ekr
