Paul,
At 10:15 AM +0200 6/18/03, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
I can think of some possible reasons, not necessarily exclusive
- this is a bad idea/impossible to do well, so we shouldn't do it
- some other organization is already doing it, so we shouldn't
- we're too stupid to get it right, so we shouldn't do it
- the IETF is too large, so we shouldn't be adding more work
This might be a combination of the latter three, but I think it is
clearer for this WG:
- the IETF's track record for this work so far is quite poor
We have not shown any ability to create standards in this area with
due speed or predictability.
I certainly agree with your on the "track record". But I think we
need to be a bit more specific on why the track record is "quite
poor". For example, why the IESG didn't approve 2547bis as a Proposed
Standard 2 years ago ? Ditto for draft-martini... Perhaps folks
from the IESG would care to explain this...
Yakov.