RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", a

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:04:54 -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
>   Peter, as soon as we get to "valid concerns that deserve
>   attention", we remove the proposed document, I believe, as a
>   candidate for BCP.
That pretty much applies to all specifications.  A Last Call that produces any 
sort of serious "concern" that folks feel should be taken seriously means that 
the document is not yet ready for approval.

It occurs to me that a Last Call for an independent submission has an added 
requirement to satisfy, namely that the community supports adoption of the 
work.  We take a working group as a demonstration of community support.  
(However we used to pressure for explicit statements during Last Call.)  My 
feeling is that an independent submission MUST show significant support during 
Last Call.

In other words, a working group document getting IETF Last Call has something 
of a Default Yes. And independent submission needs to be Default No.

And, indeed, I haven't seen much support for the document under discussion.


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