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Re: candidate MASS charter

2004-09-30 11:37:04

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:39:07 -0400, Andrew Newton wrote:
 If you are suggesting that completing a requirements doc will
 lead to an unsuccessful working group, then I'd say that
 working group would likely not produce anything anyway.

My own experience is that producing a formal requirements 
document in an IETF working group is primarily effective at a) 
taking a long time, and b) dissipating the enthusiasm of the 
group, and c) imposing abstract constraints before there is a 
practical basis for knowing what will work and what is really 
essential for an initial deployment.  This last point means that 
the requirements frequently become Procrustean and impractical.

Of the lengthy list of working groups that you supplied, how long 
did it take to produce the requirements documents for these 
efforts and what is the current level of deployment and use for 
those protocols?

As I said, one can start with concrete specifications and seek to 
do minimal changes, or one can go down the path of a working 
group design and development project, starting with a clean 
slate.

d/

ps. my query about the amount of time to budget for the 
requirements exercise was serious.  if you believe it essential 
to do, then we need to work through the details.  how long is 
realistic to produce the formal requirements document?

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Dave Crocker  <mailto:dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com>
Brandenburg InternetWorking  <http://brandenburg.com>





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