--On Sunday, July 19, 2009 12:18 PM -0400 Ray Pelletier
<rpelletier(_at_)isoc(_dot_)org> wrote:
The Trustees announced six changes on July 18, and set the
end of the comment period at July 23. That's not a 30-day
community review of the six changes, that's a 5-day review.
As Marshall's email of 18 July said:
Since the original call went out on the 23rd of June, the
comment period is extended to the 23rd of July.
The 'six changes' reflected interim decisions made by the
Trustees as a result of community input during this period. A
revised TLP will not be adopted until after the 30 day period,
likely to be while in Stockholm. Those 6 interim decisions
and the remaining document are still before the community for
feedback to the Trustees.
Ray,
Noting that this issue is included in my request to the Trustees
that they review these decisions and the ways of doing business
that cause them...
* There is, as far as I know, no precedent for an
IETF-related body to announce a public comment period on a
document, make a series of "interim decisions" and announce
them five days before the end of that period, and then leave
the comment period termination date in place rather than
restarting the review on the revised document.
* BCP 101 requires that the IAOC and, by extension, the
Trustees, explain the reasoning for their decisions. While
Marshall's "interim" posting arguably does that for the
changes that were made (the community's comments were
accepted), it does not do so for any of the changes that
were not made after other community comments. Independent
of when the comment period ends, that makes the interim
announcement (and probably the original one) invalid.
--john
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