On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
Sounds like the last call might have to be extended or canceled.
The idea that WG would come to consensus and produce complete set of
documents within 4 months of its beginning was unrealistic to begin with.
(and many have said that in the beginning).
The last call is appropriate for documents that have undergone serious
review and all major problems have been eliminated. It is not a way to
find all the problems in the documents that need fixing (did you notice
how many real tech-errors, doc-bugs, etc have been reported?) - this
should have been done as part of normal process of this WG's work. Even
if we did not have such serious IPR issues, I would be surprised if
documents in their current form were able to progress further - a new
revision and new review of all the drafts are needed. It is however
unfortunete that this WG did not seriously gone through each document in
such a detail until we were formally called upon with this last-call,
I however attribute this to the rush put with our initial schedule.
I do not think its realistic to be able to progress to standard before
next meeting. In fact it might be unrealistic that we're able to progress
even at that time, but hopefully we'll be more ready and somewhere by the
end of the year we really can do this. And even if it happens this way,
the WG that has done its work in less then one year, would still probably
be the shortest successfull WG of IETF.
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net