RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", a

--On Thursday, 06 January, 2005 16:30 -0800 Peter Constable
<petercon(_at_)microsoft(_dot_)com> wrote:

> > From: ietf-languages-bounces(_at_)alvestrand(_dot_)no
> > [mailto:ietf-languages- bounces(_at_)alvestrand(_dot_)no] On Behalf Of
> > John C Klensin
>
> > (3) Finally, there is apparently a procedural oddity with this
> > document.  The people who put it together apparently held
> > extended discussions on the ietf-languages mailing list, a
> > list that was established largely or completely to review
> > registrations under 3066 and its predecessors.    My
> > understanding at this point is that their good-faith
> > impression was that the discussions on that list were
> > essentially equivalent to those of a WG.
> I believe I can say that it was done this way because it
> followed the example of the development of RFC 3066, which to
> my knowledge (as a member of the IETF-languages list at that
> time) happened in the same way. It was certainly done with a
> good-faith impression that appropriate procedures were being
> followed.
Peter, just to clarify... In my opinion (which isn't necessarily
worth much), the procedures that were followed were perfectly
reasonable.   Anyone can form a design team and put a document
together, and there are no rules that bar such a design team
from using and building on a mailing list set up for something
else.  That may or may not be wise, but it is certainly
permitted.  The only place this runs into a problem is if
someone presumes that a document developed in the way this one
was developed is equivalent to a WG product, or that it is
entitled to the presumptions of relevancy and correctness that
go with a WG product.  From that point of view, it is nothing
more or less than an individual submission (or the output of a
self-defined design team) and the comments Dave and I have been
making apply.

   john


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