Howdy,
"James P. Salsman" wrote:
Proposed special document status and process for MMMS specifications:
Recognizing that it may be impossible to achieve consensus on topics
in which large and diverse corporate concerns have vested interests
opposed to open standards, the MMMS working group will have a special
goal to produce Internet-Drafts which will identified as "Frozen MMMS
RFC-track Internet-Drafts." These documents might never become RFCs
I think this is a Bad Idea -- particularly in conjunction with:
frozen documents. Developers may rely on such documents as static
and vendors and customers will be encouraged to refer to them in their
procurement process.
These documents would become de facto standards (although they won't
have had the standards-review) and they would break the paradigm
of Internet-Drafts (which is "don't implement").
If you want to get public documentation on how things are done,
it would be more suitable I think to go with traditional Informational
RFCs -- and you can label them as "Informal understanding of how to
do X", if you like.
Leslie.
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